Robert Hennessy

Relevent to Artificial Intelligence. 

Visionary Art?

1984 and Frankenstein,
DNA research, organ transplants, electric re-animation, skin tissue farms.

the computer is not merely a tool in the study of the mind; rather, the appropriately programmed computer really is a mind"
John Searle (Strong AI)

A human being is a computer's way of making another computer.
Yes, we are their sex organs.
Solomon Short

Changes will drastically accelerate in the present century—through intentional genetic modifications, targeted drugs, perhaps even silicon implants in to the brain. Humanity may not persist as a single species for more than a few centuries—especially if communities have by then become established away from the earth.
Martin Rees

Citation from the chapter: "Building New Brains …"

Taking all of this into consideration, it is reasonable to estimate that a $1,000 personal computer will match the computing speed and capacity of the human brain by around the year 2020 … Supercomputers will reach the 20 million billion calculations per second capacity of the human brain around 2010, a decade earlier than personal computers.

"Mankind's Last Stand?" Citation:
With intelligent machines we will not get a second chance. Once the first powerful machine, with an intelligence similar to that of a human, is switched on, we will most likely not get the opportunity to switch it back off again. We will have started a time bomb ticking on the human race, and we will be unable to switch it off. There will be no way to stop the march of the machines.
Kevin Warwick