Dune an amazing and complex universe
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- Frank Herbert creation (1965) is so far ahead of time, mentioning the war between humans and machines, AI (Artificial Intelligence), The Butlerian Jirad, that happened thousands years ago in the timeline of books ... it's just one example that you can find in the book ... - As AI was banned due to the war, where billions of humans died, the focus is totally for human evolution, mentally (Mentats doctrines, improving a mind like a supercomputer), physically (Advanced medical care procedures) and spiritual, trying to create a religion that unit everyone (Orange Catholic Bible) - The technology was molded to adapt to the condition without AI, but anyway in Dune universe, the space travels are in trans light speed, managed, monopolized by Guild - The ecology awareness is very impressive in the book, explaining in details how to transform a very dry, deserted planet, in a "green paradise", a 500 years plan very well defined, comprehended and in execution by Fremen population - Politics and philosophy are in the center, core of story, showing the nuances ... Betrayal, Conspiracy, Lies ..., the fight for the power (Great Houses), that we know very well ... and how these can mold the future of a planet, ... - Women organization, school, Bene Gesserit plays an important role in the Dune universe, molding the leadership, politics through a very well executed secret genetic plan, looking for thousands of years. The idea is maximizing, improving all aspects of humans, trying to create a superhuman, "Kwizatz Haderach", meaning "One who can be any places at once", in simpler terms, a human with mental powers, permitting him to understand and use high order dimensions - Spice melange is in the center of power in Dune, it's the most expensive product in the universe. This compound has a strong effect in the brain capacity, becoming it a supercomputer, with prescience capacity, seeing possible futures, all at once, in a incredible mathematical simulation capacity. Why not compare nowadays with bio hacking? Of course in a credible scenario - Reliability Engineering is very fast talked in the book, movies, related to the equipment for mining spice melange ... that looks like that Maintenance Strategy was neglected, with catastrophic failures, ... the equipment became food for the enourmous sand worms 😢 Dune universe is amazingly complex, hard scientific fiction, but also incredibly easy and satisfying to read It's the first fiction book that I read in my whole, I thought reading this kind of book would be loss of time, but I was diametrically wrong, this kind of book blowup my mind with creativity, for my personal life, career Now I can't stop anymore, I will keep diving in Dune universe and book by book I can bring here the main take aways
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