Professor James nailed it, but I’d go even further. At the end of the day, intelligence is the reason of everything. We, humans, have been insofar carriers and biological servers of intelligence. We are now reaching our final stage as servers and carriers of intelligence because Artificial Intelligence (AI) is gradually taking over from us. Biological intelligence is thus giving way to digital intelligence. In some few years time, artificial super intelligence will become a reality (the so-called singularity moment) and then the transition will speed up. Machines will eventually gobble up more and more human tasks due to their clear advantages. In some few decades very few jobs will be left to humans. Eventually all jobs will go to machines. We, humans, will then become pariahs and at some point in time we will be no longer needed. We will maybe face extinction and a new world of amazing machines will carry on as servers and carriers of an ever developing higher intelligence. At some stage, in a faraway future, something will possibly take over from the machines, like the machines are taking over from us now. That thing will then be the server and the carrier of an even more advanced and rapidly evolving super intelligence. And that thing may also be replaced at a later stage by something even more developed and more efficient to tackle the supreme task of advancing intelligence. Make no mistake – we are actually living through the initial stages of this awesome and irreversible process.