1 Early warnings by cognitive neuroscientists, such as Maryanne Wolf, were universally ignored. See Reader, Come Home (Wolf, 2018).

2 One of the first depictions of this threat is the sentient AI machine Hal in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (MGM 1968), a film based on Arthur C. Clarke’s ‘The Sentinel,’ published in 1951 in the 10 Story Fantasy.

3 Nick Bostrom (founding director of The Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University) argued that controlling human emotions and learning to ‘respond with appropriate affect to life situations and other people’ was an essential posthuman capacity. ‘Why I want to be a Posthuman When I Grow Up,’ Medical Enhancement and Posthumanity, edited by Bert Gordijn and Ruth Chadwick (Springer 2008), pp. 107–37.

4 Again, early warnings by leading social and technology critics such as Émile P. Torres were largely ignored. Torres’ work on the TESCREAL bundle of ideologies drew urgent attention to the imminent threat to humanity.

5 Inside/Out (Disney 2015). In 2019, the ‘Inside Out Emotional Whirlwind’ children’s rollercoaster opened at Disney California Adventure theme-park.