WE'LL WEATHER THE AI-LED REVOLUTION... TOUCH WOOD

SO HERE we are: computer and phone-tapping citizens of this brave new scientific, technological, Artificial Intelligence-dominated nuclear age... and yet we are still as superstitious and fearful of the supernatural as our ancestors.

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Those poor, benighted ancients who sincerely believed thunder was the drumbeat of the gods, and lightning bolts were javelins callously hurled by divine beings from their palaces in the clouds.