• TheBlackLounge@lemmy.zip
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    22 days ago

    That seems like too literal of a reading? Dune was very much about current events told through allegory, not a warning for the future.

    Techne without episteme, that’s things like corporations, capitalism, technocratic government etc. They don’t run on computers inside humanoid robots, but they’re made out of rules to achieve a goal and reduce humans to tools to enact those rules. Close enough if you’re writing a story.