This is nice, but I see it as interim until we can produce superconducting puddles at room temperature.

No. I asked and it said: "Scheme and the Turing machine, while compelling in theory, have not until recently been considered significant."[1] Apparently it's not self-aware: It's written in Perl and not Scheme. :) [1] http://apps.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/scicache/315/scimakelatex.75855.Zebigneow.html