Judge Dread on Nostr: Frank Herbert was a smart cookie. With no external threat a really authoritarian ...
Frank Herbert was a smart cookie.
With no external threat a really authoritarian society will suppress new technology to protect those who rule it.
The Imperium in Dune is thousands of years old, totally dependent on a single world for the vital Spice, and has not figured out how to synthesize it.
With no external threat a really authoritarian society will suppress new technology to protect those who rule it.
The Imperium in Dune is thousands of years old, totally dependent on a single world for the vital Spice, and has not figured out how to synthesize it.