The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.
We're endangered by our own success.
How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
When people speak of creating superhumanly intelligent beings, they are usually imagining an AI project.