CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

Great or Grim?

WEB

Memory Lane

Star Power

The Wild Wild Web

Disruption and Deception

ROBOT

Memory Lane

Mass Extinction 2.0?

Meet Your New BFF

Look! It’s a Human. It’s a Machine. It’s a …

SPY

Memory Lane

Living in a Fishbowl

Omniscient Objects of Our Desire

Operating in the Shadows

FRANKENSTEIN

Memory Lane

Not of This World

The Land of Oz

Eye of the Beholder

CONCLUSION

Science, Sacredness, and Self-Destruction

Practical Tips

Bibliography