In future it may be unwise to answer, if we're asked what's the worst outcome we can envision, or what we are most frightened of. (Think happy thoughts; smile. It beats providing a recipe.)
Are there any other prognostications about the future that are unwise to mention; that, say, a bot would pick up on? (Was this developed in The Laundry Files?) And if we can't discuss them, how can we organize to protect against them?
What about the possibility that someone is implementing science fiction book or episode plots in real life, with unwitting (and unwilling) characters? At what stage of elaborateness would they become too expensive to put on, so you the human could take your surroundings, however bizarre, as indicative of reality? And what if, via catch-22 crafting or otherwise exploiting your shortcomings, these tableaus are being set up to paint you and yours in the worst possible light?
Could Javascript snippets insert fake stories (or product placement/user testing for the aforementioned books of the future) into a newspaper, either print or online? And has anyone else noticed a dearth of top-notch dead-tree newspapers in libraries, libraries that you'd expect would carry them?
Since any sufficiently advanced tech. is indistinguishable from magic, how, in future, will The Amazing Randi and kin be able to detect the truly supernatural from the apparently, when anyone with Snowden's powers but perhaps not his ethics could craft the latter?
How the hell do we protect citizens, including ourselves, from information-stream pollution and distortion, today and in the future? Is anyone working on this? Is Tor the answer, online? And if it is, how can you know if your copy is unaltered?
Sorry for the effluvia, but I've been wondering, and I'm a little uneasy.
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