Regardless of the merit of this particular piece, the portion of Butler's Erewhon comprising "The Book of the Machines" makes for very interesting and forward t

Regardless of the merit of this particular piece, the portion of Butler's Erewhon comprising "The Book of the Machines" makes for very interesting and forward thinking reading. You can skip directly to it here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1906/1906-h/1906-h.htm#chap23 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/1906/1906-h/1906-h.htm#chap2... But the context in the story is fairly important - it takes place in a society that has essentially already carried out its own Butlerian Jihad and taken it too far. Wonderful book by the way. I'm starting to think that the religious sects in the U.S. that laboriously evaluate a technology before incorporating it into their communities have a pretty good thing going. Sadly it's not really practical at a larger scale, and the suffering that could be avoided by adopting something early rather than late is difficult to estimate. Ah well!