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| ▲ | pixl97 8 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Climate change and killer drones run amok on the surface doesn't actually seem that far fetched now. |
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| ▲ | palmotea 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > I don’t see the similarity? It’s a dystopia run by a maniacal computer and everyone is forced to live underground until the machine collapses for some reason? I read that same summary. The similarity is pretty clear: the first step was letting a machine take over all economic and intellectual functions, leaving humanity useless and dependent it. We're talking about taking that step too. |
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| ▲ | int_19h 34 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | The question, of course, is why should it inevitably lead to that kind of world, rather than The Culture? Or, to give a more realistic and likely example, something like the Colligatarch from Alan Dean Foster's "The I Inside". | |
| ▲ | Chance-Device 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | That’s a pretty shallow resemblance. |
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| ▲ | zkiihne 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Player Piano seems more apt |
