Out of curiosity, what, exactly, are Kurzweil's qualifications to be making predictions like this? I see that he's done a fair share of building music synthesi

Out of curiosity, what, exactly, are Kurzweil's qualifications to be making predictions like this? I see that he's done a fair share of building music synthesizers. Neat! But I don't see how he made the leap from qualified to make a synthesizer to qualified to make broad predictions about computing and biotechnological trends over the next three decades....