Where does that leave us?

Current conservative projections date us at 15 years out from creating an intelligence greater than our own. If it is greater than our own (for example in terms of sheer efficacy, even if we only succeed at reproducing a human-patterned mind on modern hardware instead of a quivering, gelatinous ball of electrochemical impulses) the mechanical advantages should mean it will itself be capable of producing an intelligence smarter than its own- leading to the usual exponential advance. Singularity will be achieved. We will shed our mortal trappings and become cyber-werewolves, screaming binary into dying suns and entering the datasphere fully, using our hyper-advanced prosthetics to hunt and gather in strange aeons on strange moons as we commune through far-cast waves. Naturally, this idea terrifies the capitalists, as it is awfully hard to levy tax in a post-scarcity society, and an ongoing existence with more than one lifeform will terribly upset all those hierarchies they’ve spent so much time on lining out.