The chronicle of the life and controversial ideas of luminary Ray Kurzweil – inventor, futurist, NY Times best-selling author and one of the most respected and provocative advocates of the role of technology in our future.

The film follows Kurzweil around the globe as he presents the daring arguments from his best-selling book, The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology. Kurzweil predicts that with the ever-accelerating rate of technological change, humanity is fast approaching an era in which our intelligence will become increasingly non‑biological and trillions of times more powerful than today. In Kurzweil’s post-biological world, there will be no clear distinction between human and machine, real reality and virtual reality. Human aging and illness will be reversed, world hunger and poverty will be solved, and we will ultimately defeat death.

The film explores the social and philosophical implications of these profound changes and the potential threats they pose to human civilization in dialogues with world leaders such as Colin Powell; technologists Hugo de Garis, Peter Diamandis, Kevin Warwick, and Dean Kamen; journalists Kevin Kelly and Tom Abate; and icon Stevie Wonder.

Transcendent Man offers a view of the coming age that is both a dramatic culmination of centuries of  technological ingenuity and a genuinely inspiring vision of our destiny.