Ray Kurzweil “teleported” to Sony Headquarters in Tokyo on December 15 to give a keynote address for Sony Technology Week, celebrating Sony’s coming 60th anniversary in 2006.

Introduced by Dr. Hiroaki Kitano, Director, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Kurzweil spoke on “The Acceleration of Technology in the 21st Century and Its Impact on Consumer Products, Culture, and Society” from his office in Massachusetts.

Kurzweil appeared via Teleportec’s two-way “Teleportation Technology,” which creates the appearance of a life-size, 3-D person at a remote location and gives the speaker telepresence to achieve two-way eye contact for real-time, two-way interaction.

This was the first time anyone has “teleported” from the U.S. to Asia, according to Kurzweil.