Podcasts that mention 📚 The Book of Frank Herbert by Frank Herbert

A good book, a good novel to think of this all through is the is the book June I think which offers a really interesting prism. On the one hand, you have hyper advanced technologies accompanying effectively a quasi feudal political order and you know we always presume that technological advance will go hand in hand with you know social political advance or at least be linear progression right I suspect we may we may start to see that sort of disconnecting you know we might see societies moving away from equality under the law back towards feudal kind of um feudal uh social ties combined with artificial intelligence.

The guest recommends a novel, 'June' (likely Dune), as a good way to think through the combination of hyper-advanced technology and quasi-feudal political orders.

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