well as one guy in his pyjamas to another - I think the bit we forget about too easily is the social context and the way that power gets moved around in society.

Sure this technology and the financial implications of it are going to go crazy (in the sense that it will not be or act like anything we've seen before). But if you and I had been hanging around Princeton or Cambridge in the late nineteen-thirties and bumped into Alan Turing, we might well have concluded that his theoretical machines would surely exist within a decade or so. But we could not have foreseen that these machines would have come about in the context of an horrific war with hundreds of millions dead at the end of it. I pray for peace every day, but we can't take for granted that the innovation we want to see will come about without some violent struggles.

On the other hand... to the moon!