Wow the was... bad. I can get scientists want to bring SciFi to life, but this is a stretch. In the second Artemis Fowl book, there is a centaur who uses a hum

Wow the was... bad. I can get scientists want to bring SciFi to life, but this is a stretch. In the second Artemis Fowl book, there is a centaur who uses a human laptop (magical creatures live in a technologically advanced society underground), and the first thing he does is mute it. He complains that humans are unevolved and have some sort of compulsion to make their products emit sounds and and lights.