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Comment author: ford_prefect42 16 June 2015 09:07:18PM 1 point [-]

To some extent, they already are. Google and Facebook have had measurable impacts on neural structures and human behavior. There are also products like "emospark" that are designed to deliberately manipulate our emotional condition. Now, how well they do remains a question.