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I wouldn't even present that as a reason for caring. Superhuman AI is an issue of the near future, not the far future. Certainly an issue of the present century; I'd even say an issue of the next twenty years, and that's supposed to be an upper bound. Big science is deconstructing the human brain right now, every new discovery and idea is immediately subject to technological imitation and modification, and we already have something like a billion electronic computers worldwide, networked and ready to run new programs at any time. We already went from "the Net" to "the Web" to "Web 2.0", just by changing the software, and Brain 2.0 isn't far behind.
How much of the change from "the Net" to "the Web" to "Web 2.0" is actually noteworthy changes and how much is marketing? I'm not sure what precisely you mean by Brain 2.0, but I suspect that whatever definition you are using makes for a much wider gap between Brain and Brain 2.0 than the gap between The Web and The Web 2.0 (assuming that these analogies have any degree of meaning).