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Ray Kurzweil grew up in [[Queens]], [[New York]]. He was born to secular Jewish parents who had escaped Austria just before the onset of WWII, and he was exposed to a diversity of faiths during his upbringing. In his youth, he was an avid consumer of [[science fiction]] literature. By the age of twelve, he had written his first computer program, and in high school he created a sophisticated pattern-recognition software program, thatwhich analyzed musical pieces of great classical music composers and then synthesized its own songs in similar styles. The capabilities of this invention were so impressive that, in 1965 he was invited to appear on the [[CBS]] [[television]] program ''[[I've Got a Secret]]'', where he performed a piano piece that was composed by a computer he also had built.<ref name=CSPAN_interview>[http://www.booktv.org/feature/index.asp?segid=7515&schedID=457 Piano performance is seen at the beginning of his C-SPAN interview on [[C-SPAN|CSPAN-2]] [[Book TV]], [[November 5]], [[2006]]]</ref> Later that year, Kurzweil also won First Prize in the International Science Fair for the invention, and he was also recognized by the Westinghouse Talent Search and was personally congratulated by President Lyndon Johnson during a White House ceremony.

Not only that, he also optimistically stated that houses would have around hundred computers within, yet houses are not yet "Intelligent".; Howeverhowever, this linked into his prediction of domestic robots being around but not mainstream ''(see [[Domestic robots]])''.

Since the publication of ''[[The Age of Spiritual Machines]],'' Kurzweil has even tacitly admitted that some of his 2009 predictions will not happen on schedule. For instance, in the book he forecast that [[Virtual retinal display|specialized eyeglasses that beamed computer-generated images onto the retinas of their users to produce an HUD-effect]] would be in wide use by 2009, and that in the same year telephone companies would commonly provide computerized voice translating services, allowing people speaking different languages to understand one another through a phone., Yetyet in a 2006 [[C-SPAN|C-SPAN2]] interview, he stated that these two technologies would not be available until sometime in the 2010s.

* 2005. ''The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology.'' ISBN 0670033847. <!--deals with the fields of [[genetics]], [[nanotech]], [[robotics]], and the rapidly changing definition of humanity.