The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.

I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.

He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.

The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.

Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.

The dilemma felt by science fiction writers will be perceived in other creative endeavors.