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by manquer 289 days ago
This point is why I find series like Dune or even aspects of Foundation implausible .

At the scale of interstellar empires machines are have to do most of the administration. You cannot centralize so much bureaucracy without computers involved .

I understand the need for science fiction to focus on the human drama, but trying to have empires and be anti-machines is unrealistic.