The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all – no one's around to write horror stories.
It was not called the Net of a Million Lies for nothing.
But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
Hexapodia as the key insight...I haven't had a chance to see the famous video from Straumli Realm, except as an evocation. (My only gateway onto the Net is very expensive.) Is it true that humans have six legs?