Stephen Hawking in Hong Kong this week. Photograph: Song Xiaogang/ChinaFotoPress
Celebrity professors say the darndest things. Imagine if someone down the pub told you straight-faced that computers risked taking over the world, and that super-intelligent humans would need to be genetically engineered to compete, writes David Fickling.
Imagine them then telling you that this super-race would cause less enhanced humans to die out, and that organic life would be eventually replaced by self-sustaining robots flying through space and building new generations with mining expeditions in remote solar systems.
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