Introduction The main protagonist of this paper Raymond Kurzweil, does not appear on your list of usual suspects in discussions about Western esotericism. Kurzweil (b. 1948) is an American engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur who has founded a dozen companies and has about a fifty patents to his name. His original claim to fame was as developer of the first text-to-speech reading machines for the blind, in the 1970s. Appropriate for the theme of this conference, Kurzweil is also in the … Ray Kurzweil’s Transhumanism as Contemporary Esotericism weiterlesen