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His concept of "utopia" is one where only robots work, and humanity looking more like B&L customers in a WALL-E world.
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Butlerian Jihad when?
What? Are you seriously gonna say that television and Internet weren't a massive boon for society regarding education/knowledge sharing and social exchange? You've such a negative outlook on life if you honestly believe that.
I remember when people would tell you things and you just had to say OK cause your only refute was to hop on over to the library and find a book as a source.
And pre-Internet, when would you ever communicate with someone outside of your little town? Sure sign up for a penpal or some shit like that, but the ability for me where I am on the shitter to write this comment to you is INSANE in the broad spectrum of the human race.
Stop being such a doomer
Yes, I'm going to say that television and the Internet weren't a massive boon for society.
Television (and streaming video later on) when it started off perhaps had potential to change things for the better. Now look at it. "Reality" shows, politically divisive opinion pieces masquerading as news, and in general just a pile of crud until you get into the individual paid channels ... which benefit only those who can afford the increasingly expensive fees.
Benefitting the rich? Yeah, that's new and unexplored territory for sure!
As for the Internet, again, when it was first unleashed on the public it was a GREAT place. Now it's one walled garden after another with the only real concern the delivery of ads as often and as plentiful as possible. Its potential has been wasted. But hey, at least the warp speed spread of disinformation that it enables with such panache didn't result in the ever-accelerating failure of democracies around the world!