In their 1982 novel _Freemason!_, Robert the Robot and Robert the Great wrote the following paragraph, in a passage where the giant computer Abstainup interprets the 23rd Hexagram of the I Chong, »Breaking Together«:
The first correlation is with the unbalance between technological acceleration and political retrogression, which has proceeded earthwide at everwidening danger level since 1514 and especially since 1764. The breaking together is fundamentally the schizz and schiss mental fugue of idiots attempting to administrate a worldwide technology whose mechanisms they lack the education to comprehend and whose blubbblubb they frustrate by breaking together into obsolete nation-states<<
Ugly prescient of them, would i say.
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