Time Magazine published an article this week called 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal by Lev Grossman that is a must read. It's about Raymond Kurzweil and an event that has been predicted by many, many sci-fi writers (William Gibson, Richard Morgan, and Vernor Vinge to name a few) called Singularity.
Here is the link: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2048138,00.html
