Netcraft: Interview with Jim Gray, Manager, Microsoft Bay Area Research Center

Jim Gray talks Terraserver, SkyServer, SkyQuery, Sky Nodes, etc. At the end he is aked:

Q. Where do you think we are ultimately heading with computers?

A. I believe that Alan Turing was right and that eventually machines will be sentient. And I think that's probably going to happen in this century. There's much concern that that might work out badly; I actually am optimistic about it.

Mmm... I predict SkyServer will become SkyNet and will get self-conscious by 2005 ;-)