"At the end of the day though, it's still the human mind that will be the developer, and the utilizer of all of this technology."

Maybe... maybe not. Back in the day, around 1988-1989 I was working on my EE undergrad (later changed to CIS) and I took a microprocessor design course. I remember the professor sharing a AI story where some lab had linked together 100,000 microprocessors similar to how neurons are linked together in a human brain. They than started asking this machine questions, and 95% of the time it replied with a preprogrammed response, but 5% of the time it replied with a response that was generated on it's own and unpredictable. That was almost 20 years ago, so I have to imagine that they are a lot farther along on AI than we know, so the day may come when technology has the ability to reproduce on its own. Probably not in our lifetime....but I want the bastards to pay for the right to use the MMP now! LOL