We're endangered by our own success.
The heart of manipulation is to empathize without being touched.
What we have is a data glut.
Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.
I argue in this paper that we are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth.