&gt; “Our ability to understand what to build is so far behind what we can build,’’ said Dr. Minshull, who was invited to the meeting at Harvard but did not attend. “I just don’t think that being able to make more and more and more and cheaper and cheaper and cheaper is going to get us the understanding we need.’’<p>As point of comparison, consider how well any of us would understand software engineering if it cost thousands of dollars to compile a program.  <i>That</i> is the potential impact of this technology- talk about using this to create super-humans or whatever is pure hype and&#x2F;or scaremongering.