Developer buys first edition of 1872 'Erewhon', literature's earliest AI prophecy
IgorGabrielan · x · 2026-10-07
IgorGabrielan registered erewhon.si and is raising funds to buy a first edition of Samuel Butler's 1872 novel 'Erewhon'. Butler wrote about machine intelligence as early as 1863 — a century before the poster was born — and the novel imagines a society banning machines over fears of machine evolution. The full text is available on Wikisource.