Ray Kurzweil is an inventor and futurist, perhaps best known now for his books and lectures regarding accelerating change and the Technological Singularity. He joined the Singularity Summit 2007 via satellite. Because his work was referenced often in other speakers’ talks, he addressed some of their comments and conclusions, including a defense of double exponential growth in information technologies, rapid advances in algorithms (and therefore software), and a convergence of different technologies.

Kurzweil kept his comments short and then opened up the rest of his time to questions from the audience.