Fairy Tales for Computers A Selection of Works by Franz Kafka [and Others]

Fairy Tales for Computers is a selection of stories, statements, and prophecies, each eerily prescient in its own way and relevant to these technologically obsessed times. "There is a sort of pact between the machine and ourselves, like the terrible contract between the nervous system and the subtle demon of drugs. The more useful the machine seems to us, the more it becomes so; and the more it becomes so, the more incomplete we are, the more incapable of doing without it", from History and Politics by Paul Valéry. A sobering but brilliant collection of writings complied over thirty years ago but still just as poignant. Featured authors include, E. M. Forster, Franz Kafka, Theodor Herzl, Samuel Butler, Paul Valéry, and Hans Christian Andersen. Edited by Leslie George Katz. Text Only.