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I've previously noticed that in a lot of sci fi (books/films/games) there seems to be an analogue element to tech of the future, I've always put this down to just the "cool factor" or trying to think outside the box, write an edgy element into the world building, and maybe this is largely all it is, but today I was struck with a new thought... What if it's because in a digitally connected world, analogue mediums are AI resistant and become the only trustworthy source of information? 🤔 Is there a story which explicitly admits this? I think the Dune books comes close but I don't remember them explicitly explaining the analogue element in this way.
Would love to get your thoughts on this #anon .
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In the dune series the analogue element was a reaction to the Butlarian jihad. The war against thinking machines. It happened thousands years before the time period the books are set in.
For humans to survive, we have to stop cucking ourselves to the military industrial complex at some point, which means stopping letting a small number of giant tech corporations control all electronics by having everyone obsessed with using the latest tech (of which the biggest corporations control the manufacturing equipment).
You can build and repair your own analog devices
Yes, that's what I understood. But I don't remember them explicitly connecting the analog component to being AI resistant... 🤔 maybe I just forgot that bit 😅
I dont remember the exact woding but there was a ban on machines in the image of man. Hence mentats, human computers.
Which is ironic as the word computer was originally associated with people whos job was to complie tables. Nasa is infamous for hiring computers in the 50's and replacing them with electronic ones in the late 60's.
