If you’re a fan of Frank Herbert’s Dune novels, or their movie and miniseries adaptations, you’ll have noticed the absence of something normally central to science fiction: computers. In Dune-lore, thousands of years before the events depicted in the main story, humans had become dependent on so-called ‘thinking machines’, which then got too big for their CPUs and attempted – quite successfully it turned out – to enslave humanity. Eventually h…
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