Threat my ass. TI's are just the red headed step children. Playfull grooming for large scale social Engineering.
Hard type is a shit way to describe it. Most of it goes unoticed. Its so slick that its very difficult to tell if that emotion you just had was you or the tech. Thought surveilence, sound manipulation that is theater quality, forced speech, visual holograms that look so fucking real you cant tell, even tv visual manipulation, like in the movie "the game", dream manipulation. List goes on and on.
All you can do is sit back and watch.
Nope, that plane hit the mountain long ago. Who gives a shit if someone rigged a vote machine when they are litteraly useing the tech to rigg peoples thoughts. We are in fact transhumans, organic robots that dont know they are robots. Or better yet, in a way we are just like that replicant bitch in blade runner who didnt know she was a droid, missing the metals parts of course.