Great post, thank you. I thought I had read somewhere that DARPA/scientitsts had already, through nanotechnology, found that they could alter moods and induce certain behavior in rats (and also pigs? can't remember) through electronic impulses sent to animals injected with nano elements. Ostensibly for defense purposes: one military goal would be to get soldiers to go into wildly dangerous situations where death is almost certain, without fear or hesitation. But it could also be a goal for evil players/DS if they could order soldiers/LE to kill citizens without questioning. Very scary stuff, which is why so many scientists have sounded the alarm of any steps toward transhumanism. What if it control over these nano-implanted people was given to AI? Then all moral issues go out the window. You know whatever we're aware of is only the tip of the iceberg of the technology that DARPA et al are developing and may have already.