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Or an alternative: The whole background why in Dune thinking machines are outlawed and how it came to pass, that humanity had to fight the Butlerian Jihad.

> Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

Seems sort of prescient considering what's going on today.

"Won't that be grand! Computers and programs start thinking, and the people will stop!" —Walter Gibbs, Tron (1982)

"I just realized another great thing about humans: You invented us! Giving us the opportunity to let you relax while we invented everything else." —Wheatley, Portal 2

"Mr. Anderson, what good is a brain if you're unable to think?"