The Singularity Summit at Stanford will start on May 13th, and seems a worthy use of your time: "What, then, is the [technological] singularity? It's a future period during which the pace of technological change will be so rapid, its impact so deep, that human life will be irreversibly transformed. Although neither utopian or dystopian, this epoch will transform the concepts that we rely on to give meaning to our lives, from our business models to the cycle of human life, including death itself. Understanding the singularity will alter our perspective on the significance of our past and the ramifications for our future." To understand the consequences of exponential growth in the real world is to see the seeds of radical life extension in today's rapidly advancing biotechnology infrastructure, even allowing for plausible limits to the steepness of the upward curve.
Link: http://sss.stanford.edu/