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Reminds me of Frank Herbert's ominous (fictional) prophecy: “Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But tha
by doc_gunthrop 8y ago
Reminds me of Frank Herbert's ominous (fictional) prophecy:
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
- rixed 8y agoSounds like what Brecht once wrote about the luddites, something along the lines of: "you appear to be dominated by machines only because there are men hiding behind those machines" (can't retrieve the actual quote now, was on a treatise on theater)
- greedo 8y agoTime for Mentats! The Butlerian Jihad seemed so unrealistic when I first read Dune, but now it seems prophetic.