I Consider Myself An Inventor,

The Key Issue As To Whether Or Not A Non-biological Entity Deserves Rights Really Comes Down To Whether Or Not It's Conscious.... Does It Have Feelings?

With The Increasingly Important Role Of Intelligent Machines In All Phases Of Our Lives--military, Medical, Economic And Financial, Political--it Is Odd To Keep Reading Articles With Titles Such As Whatever Happened To Artificial Intelligence? This Is A Phenomenon That Turing Had Predicted: That Machine Intelligence Would Become So Pervasive, So Comfortable, And So Well Integrated Into Our Information-based Economy That People Would Fail Even To Notice It.

What We Spend Our Time On Is Probably The Most Important Decision We Make.

Biological Evolution Is Too Slow For The Human Species. Over The Next Few Decades, It's Going To Be Left In The Dust.

As We Gradually Learn To Harness The Optimal Computing Capacity Of Matter, Our Intelligence Will Spread Through The Universe At (or Exceeding) The Speed Of Light, Eventually Leading To A Sublime, Universe Wide Awakening.