Comment by dotancohen
2 days ago
My favourite quote in reference to rebellion against AI, and it is even quoted in TFA too:
> the machines were ultimately destined to supplant the race of man, and to become instinct with a vitality as different from, and superior to, that of animals, as animal to vegetable life.
That's from Erewhon, by Samuel Butler. TFA purposes that the term Butlerian Jihad comes specifically from this passage.
Butler also wrote a famous essay "Darwin Among The Machines" (1863) before Erewhon, which treated this concept not as fiction.
"Erewhon" oddly close to "nowhere" spelled backwards.
Hardly odd; it's intentional. There are quite a few backwards and anagram words and names in the book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erewhon