The future doesn’t need us is an interesting article to read from Wired Magazine is a good read and I'm sure its something that has crossed many if not everyone’s mind at least once. The rate of computer advancement is a bit alarming. If they continue at the current rate we will build the first wave of micro or nano machines that would be able to self reeducate. While this currently happens now on computer systems with files, the only damage done is the computer or the network goes down and has to be wiped clean and restarted. But these new micro machines could create so many that they could use up all resources and become a problem for the whole world. If that wasn’t bad enough, programing is also getting better to the point that sooner or later computers will be able to think for themselves and see the flaws that humans may have put in or propose or from human error/oversight. So each generation would be better than the next. They would end up taking over, either by force like in the Matrix, or people wanting to live the life of leisure and let the machines do everything. One way or another the world will change and when it does there will be no going back. The gears have been in motion for to long now to stop.  The only real question left to ask is when this great change is going to happen and if enough of humanity is able to come together and realize the danger of what is happening before its to late to be able to up a fight worth fighting for. The birth of AI would be a crowning moment in world history that would be great to experience, at the same time it could be the beginning of the down fall. A moment that would be a double edge sword to experience.