Would like to know the thoughts of others around this book who are looking at this in 2026 vs 2009.
alabut 8 hours ago [-]
Reminds me of the Butlerian Jihad in Dune and how the anti-ai revolt led to the rise of human thinking machines. They're the ones that roll back their eyes in the movies when they're calculating.
euroderf 7 hours ago [-]
In the Lynch version the mentat Thufir has a short rap where he is getting the house's defensive systems in order. Cool stuff.
"Sector six-eighty, copy the sixth the sum of the eighth quadrant of the ninth plus eight-four circles weave the eighth quarter the fourth, copy!"
There's some more discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/asimov/comments/1u76f8l/the_feeling...
and a text version here: https://hex.ooo/library/power.html
"Sector six-eighty, copy the sixth the sum of the eighth quadrant of the ninth plus eight-four circles weave the eighth quarter the fourth, copy!"