ic synthesized that copied the sounds
             of the grand piano and other orchestral instruments in 1984. Kurzweil has
             received nine honorary doctorate degrees, and has been honored by two
             First published in 1990, Kurzweil's The Age of Spiritual Machines
             made some bold predictions for the coming years. Many of these have
             already come true, as his prediction that a computer would beat the human
             champion in chess came true in 1997, a year before he predicted. Further,
             he discussed a widely adopted global network of computers that could be
             navigated visually, a prediction of t
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