I’ve stopped work on this project several times to prioritize family.  

As a father, I have a perspective on culture that is generational. This is an important perspective.  Not only because of what has come before but because of an awareness of what is coming after.

I have often felt that I am living in a memory of my son‘s past. I feel the weight of that responsibility.

This is why Dune has become part of the focus of my now. Generational development is at the core of Dune’s Bene Gesserit breeding program. I perceive it as an advanced AI perception technology in that far-out setting.

(I love that term, far out, so rich in speculative fiction history.)  If we consider that AI is advanced perception then the thought of breeding to develop traits of advanced perception could be paralleled with AI advancements.

The engine of Dune’s AI is spice.

Spice is the key to advanced perception in Dune’s far-out setting. Dune’s galaxy is post AI apocalypse. Spacing Guild navigators and spice-stained mentats rely on the advanced perception spice enables to calculate the advanced algorithms of wormholes and treachery. CHOAM is the business, Kanley is the game, and galactic travel is the boon of the Herbert’s spice culture.

What is the engine of our emerging AI technology?