This is just the beginning. As we all know, technology marches forward and things get smaller and cheaper. It won't be long before this technology is available to the average person. Unfortunately, corporate greed will be the "push" behind its advancement.
The price of such power? You have read 1984 or seen the Terminator series, haven't you? The basic problem is that those who make decisions regarding how and where this technology is to be used
1) are motivated by profits
2) are insulated against the consequences
3) cannot comprehend how their ideas could be misused
4) and are not even open to discussing this possibility!
My Puny Human Brain
This was to be an away game for humanity, I realized as I walked onto the slightly-smaller-than-regulation Jeopardy! set that had been mocked up in the building's main auditorium. In the middle of the floor was a huge image of Watson's on-camera avatar, a glowing blue ball crisscrossed by "threads" of thought—42 threads, to be precise, an in-joke for Douglas Adams fans. The stands were full of hopeful IBM programmers and executives, whispering excitedly and pumping their fists every time their digital darling nailed a question. A Watson loss would be invigorating for Luddites and computer-phobes everywhere, but bad news for IBM shareholders.
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