Video: Captcha Tech Used As High-Grade OCR

Distributed computing seems to be all the rage these days; 'Hey, kids! Turn your PS3 into a part of a supercomputer while you're not using it!'. But this just seems like it's cheating. While what they're doing is pure genius, as a transhumanist, I can't help but have visions of human subprocessors a la brain-computer interfaces.