Re: Erewhon by Samuel Butler, ~1870

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Jun 08 2001 - 01:15:14 MDT


At 02:03 PM 6/7/01 -0400, Robin wrote:

>machine descendants of humans. The book is about a visitor to a fictional
>land which banned progress for fear of this

Hence the `Butlerian Jihad' in Frank Herbert's DUNE sequence, and AI's
replacement by training-augmented and drug-aided Mentats.

Damien Broderick



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