I’ve never read it but I did look up the Wikipedia summary after your comment.

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?

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pixl97 7 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.

	▲	int_19h 3 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