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“Licklider was an optimist. He envisaged something [that] very much resembles the present-day internet, but it doesn’t seem to have crossed his [mind] that making the barrier between human and machine more permeable might mean that humans are far more susceptible to being manipulated and controlled by whoever programs the machine, or by machines that learn, in some form or another, to program themselves.”