KSET Exam 2015 Solved Paper
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Question Numbers: 14-19
Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions:
Science fiction has predicted many of today's realities from cell phones to tablets. Many things that are today part of History like walking on the moon, organ transplants and space stations were once flights of fancy. Futurists build current events on a foundation of History to provide a launching pad for visions of what is to come. One of the most widely recognized Futurists is Alvin Toffler whose seminal works include Future Shock and The Third Wave. He is also the one who told us, "Change is not merely necessary to life — it is life".
Here is my question for today "Is Ray Kurzweil a Futurist?" The Wall Street Journal has described Kurzweil as "the restless genius". Forbes calls him "the ultimate thinking machine". He has been ranked by Inc. Magazine as #8 among entrepreneurs in the United States. He has also been called "the rightful heir to Thomas Edison", while according to PBS he is one of 16 "revolutionaries who made America".
His inventions are breathtaking and they impact our lives on a daily basis. These inventions include the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition.
Today, many websites will attribute Mr.Kurzweil with accurate predictions about where the world will be tomorrow. His latest book, The Singularity is Near. There is a fundamental difference between someone who is a professional writer and observer of humanity such as Toffler and someone who is a technological genius with almost unlimited resources who is actively working to make his predictions reality. Toffler reads studies and interviews on his way to predictions of where society and technologies will go next. Kurzweil traded in his massive private business built upon his inventions to become Google's Director of Engineering whose sole job is to make the company's computers smarter than humans. He is working every day to improve artificial intelligence and then wed that to cutting edge robotics and human interface to produce the very singularity he is predicting. Look to Futurists like Toffler who are predicting where we are headed and look to inventors like Kurzweil who are telegraphing where they are headed and a collage of futures points to the tomorrow today will become.
Directions: Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions:
Science fiction has predicted many of today's realities from cell phones to tablets. Many things that are today part of History like walking on the moon, organ transplants and space stations were once flights of fancy. Futurists build current events on a foundation of History to provide a launching pad for visions of what is to come. One of the most widely recognized Futurists is Alvin Toffler whose seminal works include Future Shock and The Third Wave. He is also the one who told us, "Change is not merely necessary to life — it is life".
Here is my question for today "Is Ray Kurzweil a Futurist?" The Wall Street Journal has described Kurzweil as "the restless genius". Forbes calls him "the ultimate thinking machine". He has been ranked by Inc. Magazine as #8 among entrepreneurs in the United States. He has also been called "the rightful heir to Thomas Edison", while according to PBS he is one of 16 "revolutionaries who made America".
His inventions are breathtaking and they impact our lives on a daily basis. These inventions include the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition.
Today, many websites will attribute Mr.Kurzweil with accurate predictions about where the world will be tomorrow. His latest book, The Singularity is Near. There is a fundamental difference between someone who is a professional writer and observer of humanity such as Toffler and someone who is a technological genius with almost unlimited resources who is actively working to make his predictions reality. Toffler reads studies and interviews on his way to predictions of where society and technologies will go next. Kurzweil traded in his massive private business built upon his inventions to become Google's Director of Engineering whose sole job is to make the company's computers smarter than humans. He is working every day to improve artificial intelligence and then wed that to cutting edge robotics and human interface to produce the very singularity he is predicting. Look to Futurists like Toffler who are predicting where we are headed and look to inventors like Kurzweil who are telegraphing where they are headed and a collage of futures points to the tomorrow today will become.
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