FUTURE PROOF: (l-r) Schmidt, Page and Brin in a self-driving car. Google has demonstrated forward-looking projects like this and now the company has hired famed futurist Raymond Kurzweil. — AFP/Relaxnews 2012
Futurist and inventor Raymond Kurzweil said that he is going to work as director of engineering at Google to help “turn the next decade’s ‘unrealistic’ visions into reality.”
Kurzweil, an author whose books include The Age of Spiritual Machines and Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever, said that Monday would be his first day on the job at Google.
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