Health and Longevity
Since the release of his book, Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever (Rodale Books, October 2004), Ray has addressed many medical and health related audiences on the merger of science, technology, and health and its impact on the healthcare industry and human longevity. He describes the central role of biological and medical information and knowledge as medicine transforms from a hit or miss process to an information technology. As medicine becomes an information technology it will be subject to the laws of accelerating returns, meaning that it will be a thousand times more powerful than today in ten years, and a million times more powerful in 20 years. Education
Ray presents to many academic groups including educators, administrators, executive boards, and higher education IT specialists about the intersection of information technology (a broad perspective), education and human knowledge. Ray describes a future in which there is widespread and inexpensive access to education around the world, individualized learning through computer assisted instruction, full-immersion virtual reality classrooms and labs, and ultimately the ability to download knowledge and skills directly to our brains.
Innovation/Invention
Ray has a presentation that describes a program for innovation, how to foster it in an organization, and how to bring inventions to market. In this talk, he draws upon his own history of innovation which led to his winning the National Medal of Technology from President Clinton in 2000 and his induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame, founded by the U.S. Patent Office, in 2002.
Business/Investing
Ray frequently presents to private equity firms and businesses on technology and the capital markets, business and technology trends, near- and long-term predictions, and strategy in an age of exponential technological growth.
Disabilities and Assistive Technologies
Ray can speak on a range of topics relating to blindness, disabilities, and assistive technologies in the 21st century. With his many technology firsts, among them: the first pocket-sized print-to-speech reading machine for the blind (2006), the first Continuous Speech Natural Language Command and Control Software (1997), the first Speech Recognition Dictation System for Windows (1994), the first commercially marketed Large-Vocabulary Speech Recognition, the first Omni-Font (any type font) Optical Character Recognition (1976), and the first Print-to-Speech Reading Machine for the Blind (1976), Ray speaks from experience about the future of disabilities in an age of accelerating technology.
