Well, it would seem one would have to be fairly oblivious to believe that we weren't. The infernal engine of machine intelligence seems to be plowing ever forward through the already worn barriers of common sense and sanity, now don't it?

"There are only a handful of scientific revolutions that would really
change the world. An immortality pill would be one. A time machine
would be another.

Faster-than-light travel, allowing the stars to be explored in a human lifetime, would be on the shortlist, too.

To my mind, however, the creation of an artificial mind would probably
trump all of these - a development that would throw up an array of
bewildering and complex moral and philosophical quandaries. Amazingly,
it might also be within reach."

Ill Portents of a bulbous digi-strosity

Beware the coming of M.O.D.O.K.! (("Mobile Organism Designed Only for Killing") image copyright Marvel Comics

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