Very interesting. Keen insights. http://nautil.us/issue/67/reboot/yuval-noah-harari-is-worried-about-our-souls Krishna would espcially like this bit: [quote]We are no longer afraid of the machine, Harari says, we have become it: “We no longer search for information. We Google. We trust the Google algorithm and we lose the ability to search for information independently.”[/quote] I like this bit: [quote]Fear and hate are primal emotions. Are you saying if you can tap primal emotions, you can control the political discourse? Yes. If you want to destroy the ability to have a meaningful public conversation, you discover the fears and hatreds of people and magnify them. And you do it on the individual basis. You can’t just show the same story to everybody because different people have different weaknesses. So maybe they discover you have a built-in bias against immigrants. They will show you a fake news story about an immigrant gang--blam!- local women. They know you will believe it because you already have this bias. But your neighbor, she has a very different bias. She’s in favor of immigration. But her bias is she thinks everybody who opposes immigration is a fascist, racist idiot. So they show her a different story about a gang of right-wing fanatics who kill immigrants. And she will believe this as easily as you believed the story about the immigrants -blam!- local women. It plays to her existing fears and hatreds and weaknesses.[/quote] Your thoughts? I recommend giving it a full read...