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Date Posted: 15:19:42 07/03/03 Thu
Author: IDAHO
Subject: There is no Way that Machines won't return in Dune 7

The second I read the Butlerian Jihad novel, I began posting my suspicion that Omnius would return due to the probes he had sent to the far reaches of space and due to the fact that Kevin and Brian have stated that their Legends of Dune novels will affect Dune 7.

After re-listening to the audio book versions of the House Trilogy, I am convinced that there is no possible way that the threat to humanity is anything other than thinking machines. The fact that Frank was very worried about machines controlling humans or humans losing their emotions and becoming machines themselves is a bit of evidence.

Stronger evidence of course lies in The Butlerian Jihad and Omnius sending out his probes. Also in the House books, D'mur Pillru (spelling?), the Ixian turned Guild Navigator, forces a highliner into an unknown region of the Universe due to the supplantation of Amal for real Melange. In his stupor, the Navigator realizes that he has caught the attention of an "ancient enemy" that wishes the extinction of humanity.
There is no other ancient enemy mentioned in Dune at all except for thinking Machines.

Those that believe that face-dancers are the enemy are in error, or else the face daner that the Honored Matres are runing from are indeed MAchines that have developed this power. I think it is pretty clear from Frank's own work that thinking Machines are a major danger to the human race. Brian and Kevin's novels make it blatantly clear that thinking machines are the threat to humanity Leto II saw.

I find it fascinating that, as the human race in the real world becomes closer to developing AI...probably very soon in fact, more and more works of science fiction preoccupy themselves with a backlash against evil machines that eventually cause the extinction of humans.

The theme is as old as Isaac Asimov's robot series, but now the Dune books, the Matrix series, the Terminator series, Stanley Kubrick's AI, and even the Star Wars saga to a certain extent have preoccupied themselves with the fact that technology and human created Artificial intelligence will destroy us.
Interesting.

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Okay... -- Ghanima, 17:11:48 07/03/03 Thu
- Waking from a dream -- IDAHO, 20:49:47 07/03/03 Thu