This guy is apparently the top tech futurist and he gives his latest predictions on future tech and it's applications based on real numbers and data. It's long but well worth every one of those 23 minutes of your life you take to watch this. [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfbOyw3CT6A"]YouTube - Ray Kurzweil: How technology's accelerating power will transform us[/ame]
Yea I figured this would be a perfect post for this section considering that this guys closing point is: that science(tech) and nature(life) will merge into what he calls "The singularity".