One persistent idea in science fiction has been that of an enormous computer library containing all the books ever produced in digital form. It would be a contemporary Library of Alexandria, and one...
The rivalry between nature and the artificial that's so evident in Shakespeare's Sonnets continues over the next few centuries, running through Richardson and Pope on up to the Romantics.
The chosen few, enjoying access to the power of God attempt to decide for us all: or how geopolitical power is ordered today.