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I think the appealing thing about the universe of Dune is 10,000 years of no IT problems whatsoever.
@NanoRaptor you say that, but I'm sure there are people in the background constantly reaching around the back of a frozen Mentat to find the hole to stick a paperclip in.
@mike @NanoRaptor and the fact that they're up front about the need for drugs for long distance transport
@BernardSheppard @mike @NanoRaptor Frank Herbert was quite blunt about Dune being a commentary about how we are already all addicted to oil. After reading some of Kurt Vonnegut's essays, I think a lot of writers shared that opinion.
@fnordius @mike @NanoRaptor Thanks, Marc, I will have to read up on the background again. I enjoyed reading the novels as a teenager, and re-reading more recently.
That theme of writers of that period forecasting what we are now living through - based, in many cases, on scientific papers that were published at the time, led to some amazing stories.
J. G. Ballard's The Drowned World was one of my favourites, published around the same time.
@BernardSheppard @fnordius @mike @NanoRaptor Stand on Zanzibar is a real trip into what at least one writer thought the future would look like, especially the worries about overpopulation and corporate power.
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if you're going to use the word overpopulation you should specify who is considered superfluous
@troglodyt @BernardSheppard @fnordius @mike @NanoRaptor I'm referring to another person's thoughts on the topic in a science fiction story. Perhaps that word should've been in quotes to make that extra clear.