This makes me smile sir. The simple fact that you understood that hit means that I am conversing with an actual intellectual. You earned another follower. Although I have to absolutely disagree with this distopian fear that you seem to be spreading, it does make for a quaint story. As a computer scientist (you) that obviously understands the nuances of the concrete future we are destined to experience, I would hope that you were just "what ifing". Still, for those that don't keep up with the great minds of Ben Goertzel, or Ray Kurzweil, you have to realize it's only going to cause problems in the near future. We need more intellectuals such as yourself to embrace the singularity and help shape it rather than fight against it and quite possibly cause the very scenario that you so eliquantly describe. ... Just mho of course. Regardless,