@cryptogee, this says a lot about communication presently. People tend to display less and less of their true emotional state. As the years go by, the new generation is losing touch with each other as most of their focus is on their device; phone, laptop, etc. Emotional interaction is slowly fading.

The emplink is indeed a singular technological breakthrough in communication. To be able to know the mood in a room full of strangers, to be able to know what your spouse is feeling at every given time, to have that kind of bond with another human being; wow that is something awesome.

But it creates a dependence that can be dangerous. Intuition which is the sixth sense will die as a result of such dependence. The ramification of such a change in the human senses is what I feel the game, Empires, intends to correct by removing that emplink connection from the game.

What would we become if we indeed had such tech in our hands in this generation of abusers of trust, of greed and manipulation?