Here's one for RC

[littleman]

Marx was big on making leaps of faith without explaining exactly how things would unfold.  Lets say in 25 years we have virtually all labor done by machines, there are still property rights and supply chains which will be owned by somebody.

[Mackin USA]

Google said it is working on a super-fast "quantum" computer chip as part a vision to one day have machines think like humans.

http://news.yahoo.com/google-working-super-fast-quantum-computer-chip-020341883.html

[ergophobe]

There were cover articles on the so-called quantum computer in both Time and Wired in the last year. Some researchers deny it's a quantum computer at all. Currently the quantum computer is the nuclear fusion of the computing world. But, like reliable fusion energy, if it happens, it will be huge - all current encryption will be obsolete overnight, for example.

[Mackin USA]

http://tinyurl.com/m7f4w8a

Stephen Hawking: 'Transcendence looks at the implications of artificial intelligence - but are we taking AI seriously enough?'