Kurzweil is presenting the leading edge of the secular movement, in the guise of current day technology. He is saying we can create enough intelligent technology to flood the Universe with its new light.
Somehow the morality, the truth seeking, the spiritual wonder, that guides humans is lost. It's heaven on earth, thanks to transistors, nanotech robots and the like.
Deeply dangerous crap.
He may even think that it is a good thing, but I don't think he is doing anything other than that to promote it and to bring it about.
He is simply predicting it. If we should be truly concerned that an unguided intellect would lead us to a dystopian future, perhaps now would be the time to consider what could be done to give that mechanistic intellect a conscience.
How shall we do that?