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37 www.hplusmagazine.com the h+ interview a 3-way conversation with the brilliant and controversial inventor and futurist SuRFDADDY ORCA & R.u. SIRIuS PHOTOS BY gURU kHALSA Ray Kurzweil needs little or no introduction to most h+ readers. Principal developer of the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first ccD flat-bed scanner, 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, Ray has been described as "the restless genius" by the Wall Street Journal, and "the ultimate thinking machine" by Forbes. Inc. magazine ranked him #8 among entrepreneurs in the United States and called him the "rightful heir to Thomas edison." his Kurzweil Technologies, Inc. is an umbrella company for at least eight separate enterprises.