Since when does the environment beat out the economy? Only in Nevereverland is that the case.

Wow, really? Forcing manufacturing out of the country because of pollution sounds retarded to me, I would think the jobs would be better for the country.

I agree 100% with this comment. In the end some form of life will survive, I even think that humans will survive. We will just shrink our population and lose our advancements in technology, we will be cavemen again...

This is true, read up on the OpenSPARC T2 processor and how it is able to run 8 concurrent threads per core. I think core counts like this will help with AI. After all the human brain is very similar to a computer with many, many cores. It doesn't process fast but the processing happens concurrently on a very large scale.