Computers
In the "Dune" universe, despite their ostensible absence, the computers and artificial intelligences of Herbert’s time are palpably present.
Stephanie Dick is a historian of mathematics, computing, and artificial intelligence based at Simon Fraser University. Her research and teaching focus on historical efforts to automate human cognition, mathematical theorem-proving and problem-solving, and the development of centralized, computerized law enforcement databanks and the algorithms that worked within them. She is co-editor, with Janet Abbate, of Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society that will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press in fall 2022.
In the "Dune" universe, despite their ostensible absence, the computers and artificial intelligences of Herbert’s time are palpably present.