We are on the edge of change comparable to the rise of human life on Earth…Within 30 years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will end.
- Vernor Vinge (San Diego University Professor of Computer Science. Speaking in 1993)



The ultimate achievement of bio-control may be the control of man himself…The controlled subject would never be permitted to think as individuals. A few months after, a surgeon would equip each child with a socket mounted under the scalp and electrodes reaching selected areas of brain tissue…the child’s sensory perceptions and muscular activity could be modified or completely controlled by bioelectric signals radiating from state-controlled transmitters
- Curtiss R Schafer (Engineer, Norden-ketay Corporation)