What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger.
The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?" Muad'Dib
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.
Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.
The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.