All his life he had lived by the law. Often his job had been to stop acts of revenge....And now revenge was all that life had left for him.

How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.

I have come to kill you."The death's heads shrugged. "You have come to try.

The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?

What we have is a data glut.

I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.

The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.