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Ray Kurzweil, a Rare card
Raymond Kurzweil is an American computer scientist, author, entrepreneur, futurist, and inventor.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 81
- DEF
- 86
- Power
- 167
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 270,000
Power 167 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
Ray Kurzweil quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ray Kurzweil card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He has written books on health technology, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, the ______ singularity, and futurism.
Answer
technological. He has written books on health technology, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism. From the Ray Kurzweil article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
High-speed rail. High-speed rail 94 · Medicine 86 · Ray Kurzweil 81 · Borax 77 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He is involved in fields such as optical character recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology and electronic keyboard instruments.
- He has written books on health technology, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism.
- Kurzweil is a prominent transhumanist who gives lectures about his optimistic outlook on the possibility of life extension via nanotechnology, robotics, and biotechnology.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ray Kurzweil article was read about 270,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 81 and blocks with 86: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
How to get Ray Kurzweil
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Ray Kurzweil (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : nrkbeta, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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