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Virtual reality, backed by high computational power, makes possible subtle forms of manipulation that influences people but that they won't notice.

For instance, a political speech can be altered slightly for each person watching, making the speaker's face subtly resemble the viewer's face. This has been proven to make viewers, on the average, have a more favorable attitude toward the speaker.

The author proposes developing systems for detecting the use of this technique and other manipulation techniques.

I fear that nonfree software, combined with remote attestation, will be used to make it impossible to run the software to do this. It will be "unauthorized."

New sensors are being developed to determine a person's emotional state from per skin.

Based on recent fashion, I forecast that the sensor will connect to a snoop-phone, and the data will all be sent to some cloudy company from which many companies and governments will get it.