# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/raymond-kurzweil
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:50:06.723Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/raymond-kurzweil"
name: "Raymond Kurzweil"
slug: "raymond-kurzweil"
description: "Raymond Kurzweil is an American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist, and inventor. He is involved in fields such as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology and electronic keyboard instruments. He has written books on health technology, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism. Kurzweil is an advocate for the futurist and transhumanist movements and gives public talks to share his optimistic outlook on life extension technologies and the future of nanotechnology, robotics, and biotechnology."
tagline: "American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist and inventor (born 1948)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ray_Kurzweil_%40_SXSW_2017_(32594766664).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1948-02-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           24.9997
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.thekurzweillibrary.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump