It's 2009 and I'm meeting a famous scientist for lunch. He's giving a speech to a room of two hundred kids. They're enchanted. He's says "in 20 years we'll have computers more powerful than the human brain!" a kid raises their hand and asks "and then what!?" the scientist looks confused "What do you mean?" the kid's getting bewildered "what's gonna happen to us? Are they gonna kill us? Are we gonna be their pets?" "no.... they're not going to kill us..." "then what?" he looks down at the room and says slowly "I think.... I think... We're going to *become* the machines." huge waves of emotion sweep through the audience, confusion, bewilderment, fear, anger, and then they just all shut down completely. I've never seen anything like it in my life. afterwards, we're getting lunch at the cafeteria and I mutter "I can't believe you said that..." "What??" "becoming the machines; it makes sense... but still... you just said it... to all those children" he stopped walking, put his food down loudly, turns to me and said "People... they love to solve problems... But they don't want anything to change! They don't get it. If you solve problems... things are gonna change..."