Transcendent Man is Transcendent Film Making
Last night I was fortunate enough to take a peek into our future with a screening of Transcendent Man, a brilliant documentary about the genius inventor with an eye for immortality, Ray Kurzweil. Inventor of numerous important inventions including the flatbed scanner, the Kurzweil Reading Machine (which allows blind people to understand written text by having a computer read it to them aloud), the Kurzweil K250 (the electronic keyboard capable of imitating a number of instruments which musicians daily), the K-NFB Reader (which is a pocket sized version of the Reading Machine that collects text through digital camera images), and many more useful tools, Mr. Kurzweil’s latest ideas might also be his worst as his theory of Singularity (exponential growth, radical life expansion, and how we will transcend our biology) is explored in the film. As our technology rapidly advances day by day, Transcendent Man is sure to be an important film today and beyond.
Congratulations on a fascinating feature and major accomplishment to director Barry Ptolemy, my editing heroes Meg Decker and Doobie White, super producers Joe Disanto and John Ramsay, and finishing artist Wren Waters, as well as the entire Therapy crew.
Mr. Kurzweil was also in attendance for an extremely informative Q&A covering biotechnology, the inner workings of the human brain, artificial intelligence, facebook(!), and to take this photo with me of course!
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