The Future Is Coming: Artificial Intelligence

By the 2020's, computers will be able to read, understand, and model with the equivalent ability of a human. With their increasing computational power, they will be able to read and learn from all human literature, a feat no man could complete in a lifetime. And eventually they will go out into the world and learn on their own... Once the machines match humans in their ability to understand abstract concepts, recognize patterns, and other human abilities, it will be able to apply these abilities to all human and machine-acquired knowledge.
Yes this is very scary. As with any powerful technology, it can be used for good or bad. I just prefer to think about the positive side. And I also feel that the better informed we are, the better decisions we will make.