Singularity Hub | Ray Kurzweil for president (seriously?)
February 13, 2012
Source: Singularity Hub — February 12, 2012 | Aaron Saenz
This section is a collection of both current and archived Ray Kurzweil press, radio, and television interviews and appearances.
It includes hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles on science and technology breakthroughs, controversies, and predictions — explored through the lens of leading journalists in discussions with Kurzweil and colleagues — and videos of Ray Kurzweil’s TV interviews and public speaking engagements.
Source: NRF Retail's Big Blog — February 6, 2012 | Kathy Grannis
The Retail Advertising and Marketing Association (RAMA) found 25.8 percent of people planned to tune in strictly for the commercials.
To dish out his own thoughts on the winners of last night’s mega-expensive, ultra-territorial Super Bowl commercial showdown, RAMA’s Executive Director Mike Gatti, in his third annual “Top 5 Commercials” blog post, puts a few things into…
Source: Pioneer Press — February 6, 2012 | Tom Webb
Best Buy’s Super Bowl ad, featuring inventors who created innovations for cellphones, is drawing praise from advertising pros, although the wider public greeted it with a shrug.
The 30-second spot veered from the Super Bowl ad practice of using celebrities and showcased real people who invented features like the camera phone,…
Source: The New York Times — February 5, 2012 | Stuart Elliott
Best Buy: A year after a silly Super Bowl spot with Justin Bieber and Ozzy Osbourne, Best Buy celebrated real achievement with a commercial honoring technological innovators like Philippe Kahn, who declares, “I created the camera phone,” and Kevin Systrom, a founder of the photo-sharing app Instagram. [...]
Source: New Mexico Business Weekly — February 6, 2012
Source: TechCrunch — February 5, 2012 | Rip Empson
Source: Singularity Weblog — February 6, 2012 | Nikola Danaylov
“I’m Ray Kurzweil. I gave your words a voice.” This was Ray’s punchline during yesterday’s feature Best Buy Super Bowl ad also acknowledging a number of other mobile innovators.
The commercial focused the spotlight on ten technology innovators who have changed the way we use our phones:
Source: The Huffington Post — February 6, 2012
Best Buy went above any beyond with its Super Bowl commercial, including a wide range of inventors who created so many of the technological devices that are part of our daily lives. They had camera phone inventor Philippe Kahn, text-to-voice creator Ray Kurzwell, all the way to the pioneers to created Words…
Source: The Washington Post — February 6, 2012 | Emi Kolawole
Source: Big Think — February 6, 2012 | Daniel Honan
Move over, David Beckham, Matthew Broderick, Jerry Seinfeld and Donald Trump. The Super Bowl commercial that caught our attention was a Best Buy spot called “Phone Innovators” featuring none other than Big Think favorite Ray Kurzweil.
“I’m Ray Kurzweil,” the futurist and inventor says in the commercial. “I gave your words…