I feel like the things around us will never really have a "mind" the way you describe it. Yes, the lights might turn on when you walk into the room, but it's just a pre-programmed setting based on your previous input. It's a simulation of mind for us to perceive, it's not an actual process of thinking. That way we are in danger of never experiencing the world in any other way than the way we've programmed it to be experienced and insulating ourselves in out own way of thinking
I agree, however, I'm still worried that all this technology, won't be available to everyone but rather to those who can afford to pay. What's the fate of the "excluded ones", what do you think will happen to the 1 billion people suffering from hunger and disease in our planet today