Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil believes in a concept he calls "the singularity." He projects that, at some point in the not-too-distant future, computers will equal and even surpass human mental and intellectual capabilities. When that happens, we will have achieved the singularity. And by downloading our minds into a computer hard drive, we will be capable of a form of eternal life. As a very young man, Kurzweil figured out how to translate printed text into spoken word using, of course, computers, which were still fairly primitive at the time. One of his first customers was Stevie Wonder, who suggested that Kurzweil turn his attention to music and try to find a way to make electronic instruments sound authentic, or acoustic. The result was the Kurzweil Piano, which is the size of a portable keyboard with the sound of a Bösendorfer Concert Grand. Ray Kurzweil has been described as the rightful heir to Thomas Edison, and has been inducted into the Inventor's Hall of Fame.