Computers—the machines we think with

book called _On the Origin of Species_ that in the eyes of many readers

did little to glorify man himself. Samuel Butler, better known for his novel, _The Way of All Flesh_, wrote too of the mechanical being, and was one of the first to point out just what sort of future Darwin was suggesting. In the satirical _Erewhon_, he described the machines of this mysterious land in some of t...