[praxeologist]

>It's a shame, he's brought many great contributions to our field

What field? The fluffsters? Saying stuff like, "Ideas are presented in a way to fit nicely together, but ultimately lack any depth or critical insights.", is saying nothing.

[GuiA]

He did a lot of work in text to speech, speech recognition, OCR, etc. back in the day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil#Mid-life

[praxeologist]

Of course, fluffster was directed at you and I know what Kurzweil did.

[pretoriusB]

No, of course you've been pwned, and you should be more graceful about it.