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I think one thing people are overlooking is that it wasn't "a world" run by whatever - it was a bunch of worlds, that orbited different stars.

If by "abrogation of human dignity" you mean people having major life decisions made for them by an impersonal state operating on a set of values alien to their own, that is oppressive regardless of whether it's being run by people or machines. What do you mean by "right to work" here? I've...

Don't confuse your world with that of Frank Herbert. What you think possible isn't necessarily the same as what he and the other Dune authors did. But getting back to Sweden: It's case of a country that had been safe and prosperous for too long, and so had a leadership that was living in a...

Depends what's being automated. We couldn't have a website like this one if everything the server does was instead done manually. Well, technically we could... it would just be ridiculously slow. And expensive.