kurzweil technologies. parent company to nine companies. specializing in artificial intelligence. speech and character pattern recognition. and technology trend forecasting. founder and ceo. 31 years and currently. national medal of technology, the nation's highest honor in technology. recipient from president clinton. 1999. half million dollar m.i.t. prize. the nation's largest award in invention and innovation, winner, 2000. numerous. including the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind. and the first large vocabulary speak recognition instrumentation. author, five books, including "the age of spiritual machines, when computers intelligence." and coauthor of the brand new "fantastic voyage" live long enough to live forever. hobbies, cycling, hiking. ray occurs. ray kurzweil and mark grossman on the live line from denver, i want to comment on the book that you've put together. this book is really a readable compendium because you get into all kinds of matters from the food pyramid to water, although i think water could be a more attention, there's nothing here, reall