The Butlerian Jihad (23000)

Like Star Wars, the future Dune has Abrahamic, self-righteous, heroic, "chosen one" themes to it. I don't think it's a surprise.

What's interesting about the Butlerian Jihad is that it mirrors some of the Kafkaesque dystopian themes of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Huxley I think was more adept at envisioning Tinder as a hookup culture wasteland and the over-sexualization of children on social media... add social credit and a hop-skip-and-a-jump from that world that hath such people in't!

Perhaps people without social media are now considered "savages"? And how dare anyone pay with untraceable, dirty cash or crypto! /s

I'm assuming the link should be to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(franchise)#The_Butlerian...

They should reprint it as 2300. I don't think AI will need 20+k years to become troublesome.

I've read all of the Frank Herbert Dune books. I've been meaning to start on the remaining Dune books.

I think the thinking machines will find a way to send a machine back through time to stop the uprising. An Eliminator, so to speak...