Reading Notes
Friday, 3 September 2010
The Luddite connection to Frank Herbert's Dune
In the Dune universe thinking machines - artificial intelligence is banned after the Butlerian jihad. Herbert was thinking of the 19th century philosopher and technophobe Luddite Samuel Butler who wrote the book Erewhon.
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