It is at once the most promising, and horrifying possibility on our near-term horizon. The thought of the current power structure harnessing super-human intelligence, and giving birth to what is effectively an immortal slave master for the rest of us, terrifies me.
On the other hand, the thought of a bunch of friends of mine and I creating an unbeatable strategic opponent to the monsters that enforce the Income Tax and came up with the Anthropogenic Global Warming hoax harness motivates me to keep going. It's a race to the death.
Have you heard of any recent advances in the attempts to add that third strand to our DNA that you can share?