There is an autistic man who speaks nine languages, taught himself Icelandic in a week and invented his own language he calls Manti. The 31-year-old does complex celestial computations in seconds, sees hundreds of numbers on a blackboard once and can recite them in the correct sequence minutes later.

It has been reported that Daniel Tammet possesses synesthesia. Not only does he see numbers but also feels them. He is one in hundreds of millions, as he demonstrated on ABC's "20/20" this week. But when the "singularity" arrives, that moment in history when the supercomputer capable of trillions of moves per second will have reached parity with the human brain, capable of feelings, from bereavement to passionate to anger, countless millions of people will be like Tammet

Inventor and futurist  has made a documentary, called "The Singularity is Near: A True Story about the Future," which will make its world premiere debut June 12 at the Breckenridge Film Festival in Colorado. It has been predicted by Kurzweil that with the ever-accelerating rate of technological change, "humanity is fast approaching an era in which our intelligence will become trillions of times more powerful and increasingly merged with computers."

It was further reported that Kurzweil sees "the dawning of a new civilization, enabling us to transcend our biological limitations." Boundaries blur between human and machine, real and virtual. Human aging and illness are reversed, he says, world hunger and poverty are solved, and "we cure death." (With Inputs from Agencies)