It’s not every day a futurist and inventor agrees to sit down and tell epic and nerve-racking stories about inventions breaking and fixing on national television, innovation in women’s education in Europe (when it was very unpopular), and how his family escaped the Nazi’s in WWII, partially thanks to the music of Brahms. I met Ray at a trade show called NAMM many years ago. I played several performances on his Kurzweil keyboards (which are my favorites), and I had heard Ray tell some of his stories at a few parties over the years. One night he ended with a phrase that stuck with me and helped inspire this podcast: “You never know how you might change someone’s life.” This is one of my favorite interviews, and I’m so thankful to Ray for sharing and opening up his home in October of 2019 so I could bring a microphone in and we could catch up over breakfast. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!
Check out Ray’s website: https://www.kurzweilai.net/
Talk to Books: https://books.google.com/talktobooks/
Kurzweil Keyboards: https://kurzweil.com/
KNFB Reader: https://www.knfbreader.com/
Special thanks to Micaiah Rodermond for engineering this episode (https://www.facebook.com/MicaiahR).
Thanks to Linda Billson, Barry Green, Byran Saul, and Ray Kurzweil for supporting the podcast at www.patreon.com/HannahOnTheKeys
You can also listen and support on Substack: https://substack.com/profile/71677199-meant-for-good?r=16oahb&utm_campaign=profile&utm_medium=web
Music by Hannah Holbrook & Kevin Dailey (www.instagram.com/hannahonthekeys) (www.instagram.com/kipcentral)
