“I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.”
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It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.