Ray Kurzweil

Kurzweil led the field in optical character recognition and  text to speech translator, this made him beloved of the blind community. he is a futurist and avid scifi fan  and writer. He believes in the extension of human life through  the combination of humans and machines, And of the Singularity which is when the bluriing of artificial intelligence and control will become a reality.He is also trying really hard to extend his life as long as possible putting faith in cryogenics and such sciences for after he dies.