Complex sentence: In Stanislaw Lem's "Cyberiad", a central motif is unbounded progress of technology-in the sub-story "The Highest Possible Level of Development civilization", the inhabitants have become passive, and the visitors have to shoo away machines trying to comfort them.
Split into simpler sentences: In Stanislaw Lem's "Cyberiad", a central motif is unbounded progress of technology. In "The Highest Possible Level of Development civilization", the inhabitants have become passive, and the visitors have to shoo away machines trying to comfort them.