"Who knows, maybe it's not that far off?" I have a more-or-less open mind, but I can see significant problems. I mean, how many times have we been told that so

"Who knows, maybe it's not that far off?" I have a more-or-less open mind, but I can see significant problems. I mean, how many times have we been told that some big new thing is just "five years away" and yet it never arrives? I suspect a rapture-like singularity is not going to happen, but augmentation (which to some extent is already happening) will accelerate in a very interesting way. Anyway, it certainly highlights the ethical side of software engineering, as you point out.