this article on yahoo talks about downloading brains into machines (like airplanes!) to help them be smarter and to prevent accidents/crashes etc...
Have these people never seen Terminal Velocity or any other film in which AI is used in a machine (or house!) and it TURNS AGAINST the humans and tries to kill them all!!?!!?!?!?!
Good grief.
OH WAIT -- I should have known.... it's the head of "Futurology" at BT... now it makes perfect sense.... bunch of dafties.