[24gttghh]

Who says the people won't rise up and attempt to destroy thinking machines in some kind of holy war? No one likes being marginalized.

[s73ver_]

But then the thinking machines will make machines of their own to protect them.

[jam4peaches]

Naw, the ideologues will go after the programmers first, as soon as they realize, much like in the movie 'transcendence'... [besides infrastructure etc]