From: GBurch1@aol.com
Date: Fri Jun 08 2001 - 06:00:07 MDT
In a message dated 6/8/2001 2:15:18 AM Central Daylight Time,
d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au writes:
> At 02:03 PM 6/7/01 -0400, Robin wrote:
>
> >machine descendants of humans. The book is about a visitor to a fictional
> >land which banned progress for fear of this
>
> Hence the `Butlerian Jihad' in Frank Herbert's DUNE sequence, and AI's
> replacement by training-augmented and drug-aided Mentats.
Once again, I bow down to possible the most erudite person on this list. 1)
I'd forgotten that term in Dune and 2) didn't get it at the time. Damien,
you da man.
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