Kvetching medieval monks

[kestrell]

Kes: I'm sure there must be a science fiction story where a sect of monk scribes discovers computers; can anyone help me with actual stories? Did Babylon 5 do a story like this? And am I the only person who feels tingles whenever she reads the word "marginalia"?
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2012/03/21/monk-complaints-manuscripts/

Comments

[ambyr]

There's a bit in A Canticle for Leibowitz that fits that description.

[jesse_the_k]

Well, it's so old it should be in the public domain: The Nine Billion Names of God by Arthur C Clarke. (Spoiler: monks writing out all the Divine's names move slowly; when they get computerized -- with big iron -- the universe disappears.)

[kestrell]

A couple of people on LJ recommended this, and Alexx is going to read it to me later thisweekend. Someone also recommended _A Canticle for Leibowitz_, which I havenever read.

[firecat]

The Babylon 5 episode "Convictions" includes that trope.