. >> reporter: ray kurzweil may not be a household name, but the blind know who he is. he invented the first reading machine and then reduced its size to a hand-held gadget. kurzweil will be remembered more as a man on a mission to tell the world what life will be like in the age of technology. microsoft billionaire bill gates said he is the best in the world at predicting the future, and what a world he predicts. >> this is a design of a robotic red blood cell. we are going to put these technologies inside us, blood-cell-size devices that will augment our immune system, make us a lot healthier, destroy disease and dramatically push back human longevity, go inside our brains and actually enable us to remember things better, solve problems more effectively. we are going to become a hybrid of machine and our biological heritage. in my mind, we are not going to be transcending our humanity. we are going to be transcending our biology. >> reporter: kurzweil has written several books. one of the most recent, called "the singularity is near," predicts that by the year 2050 no

with ideas experiment brainstorm and then he started getting into transhumanism a little bit with ray kurzweil and those people what is the trans humanism is the belief that we human beings should radically alter the physical body and the nature of what it means to be human merge with computers nanotechnology it's all defined and there are some interesting ideas in there a big notion of how to live forever yes all of i got in exactly this so so new got involved with that and some of the architects of that he started playing around with the space stuff and pretty quickly i realized that no this isn't a game it's all intellectual cotton candy with him it's right colored and it looks like it would taste good but it's not filling there's not really so far and weird he's really smart but he's not a genius and he thinks he's a genius so he's like that kid who's always inventing time travel in his basement there's really nothing to it so it's interesting so what i actually knew somebody like what's going to you know motion machine. what should republicans worry about if new kicks romney's but i mean