Serious work is being conducted as we read today on the next generation of computer processors, single cell biological transistors that operate on chemistry, not electricity, so to speak. I find that amazing.
I am thankful great minds are working on the basis of platform for programming (intelligent design) realizing that once such computing power is eventually released (if we don't destroy each other first - humans) it will not so easily be corrupted by the already corrupted.
Serious 5th dimensional thinking being applied at the foundation of the research now and looking at Darwin and his evolution theory slapped the casually convenient-minded a couple centuries backwards.
Point: Einstein, Oppenheimer, a few others and the crew of the Enola Gay fully understood the concept of the threat of misused power once that trigger employed over human targets.
For example, IBM just recently broke the petaflop speed barrier (one thousand trillion calculations per second) and is now targeting the exaflop (one million trillion calculations per second). This remarkable achievement comes at the expense of more than 12,960 Cell processors – and of course, the attendant special needs for cooling.
The human brain, on the other hand, runs somewhere around 100 petaflops.