Michael W Lucas 
Satire? People who pay for X don't do satire.
derptron@mwl Really love the Dune saga, INCLUDING the stuff written by his son, and I'm with the guy replying. People act like this is some massive insight Frank Herbert had. It's not really. It's more a plot device because he needed the characters to be doing everything with their minds and why would humanity develop the system that required their evolution to develop those skills if there hadn't been same massive argument with computers so bad it lasts 10000 years? That's it. Ooooh...my messiah.
@crazyeddie it is a plot device, no question.
it's also a good point. outsource your thinking and you lose yourself.
@mwl He obviously applied it to good effect and made a good effort of giving it a real history and a real imperative. "Use it or lose it," is pretty basic though.
I actually like what his son did with it here because it showed that this whole legal framework they developed against computers (not just AI -- any computer) was an irrational reaction that got codified by religious zealotry because a teenage girl had "visions" during a fever and humanity is always going to be that fucking stupid.
@crazyeddie yes, there's a balance in all things