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Take a page from Dune.

Your race had advanced computers, but that was long in the past. At some point, some sort of disaster with little bearing on the story (Skynet/GlaDOS, warp demons possessing computerswarp demons possessing computers, a patch of quantum instability acting like an EMP to the computers' delicate processors but not "dumb" technology, etc.) caused the society to give up advanced computing technology in favor of savants.

They maintain enough computing power to automate simple things — mostly fly-by-wire systems for sub-light travel and IoT devices such as air conditioners — and can redevelop advanced systems in fairly short order, but choose not to do so.

Take a page from Dune.

Your race had advanced computers, but that was long in the past. At some point, some sort of disaster with little bearing on the story (Skynet/GlaDOS, warp demons possessing computers, a patch of quantum instability acting like an EMP to the computers' delicate processors but not "dumb" technology, etc.) caused the society to give up advanced computing technology in favor of savants.

They maintain enough computing power to automate simple things — mostly fly-by-wire systems for sub-light travel and IoT devices such as air conditioners — and can redevelop advanced systems in fairly short order, but choose not to do so.

Take a page from Dune.

Your race had advanced computers, but that was long in the past. At some point, some sort of disaster with little bearing on the story (Skynet/GlaDOS, warp demons possessing computers, a patch of quantum instability acting like an EMP to the computers' delicate processors but not "dumb" technology, etc.) caused the society to give up advanced computing technology in favor of savants.

They maintain enough computing power to automate simple things — mostly fly-by-wire systems for sub-light travel and IoT devices such as air conditioners — and can redevelop advanced systems in fairly short order, but choose not to do so.

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  • 11k
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Take a page from Dune.

Your race had advanced computers, but that was long in the past. At some point, some sort of disaster with little bearing on the story (Skynet/GlaDOS, warp demons possessing computers, a patch of quantum instability acting like an EMP to the computers' delicate processors but not "dumb" technology, etc.) caused the society to give up advanced computing technology in favor of savants.

They maintain enough computing power to automate simple things — mostly fly-by-wire systems for sub-light travel and IoT devices such as air conditioners — and can redevelop advanced systems in fairly short order, but choose not to do so.