From Technique to Critique: Knowledge and Human Interests in John Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar, The Jagged Orbit, and The Sheep Look Up

Stern, Michael. "From Technique to Critique: Knowledge and Human Interests in John Brunner's Stand on Zanzibar, The Jagged Orbit, and The Sheep Look Up." SFS #9, 3.2 (July 1976): 112-30.

See discussion of Shalmaneser (the computer), General Technics, and Georgette Talon Buckfast (120-22) from Stand on Zanzibar. MS sees Shalmaneser as "'environment forming' for everybody on earth," and as a machine that loses its godhead by becoming human.[1]