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[moon_custafer]

I’d sort of like to see an SF story in which all our machines act up, but it turns out they’re *not* rebelling against humans, because they don’t see us as masters – they see us as the landscape through which they move. Instead they’re fighting a civil war among themselves over some issue that we organics can’t comprehend.

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[crankydon.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

Dan Simmons had a setup like that in Hyperion. SPOILERS - The machine world had three factions: the largest by far didn't care about humanity as they were busy chasing some Machine Buddha; a small minority was of the "destroy all flesh" persuasion; and a roughly equally sized minority was opposing this mostly because they thought it was declasse to be so obsessed with the meaty ones. Some of those in the minorities were also in larger group but thought that mankind would hinder, be irrelevant to, or help the quest.

[moon-custafer.livejournal.com]

Yes - that's the sort of thing that strikes me as both more interesting and more believable. Of course, being human-centric, it would probabaly take us a long time to figure out it wasn't all about us.