In an attempt to escape the coronavirus panic I take a deep dive into one of my all time favourite works of Sci-Fi...

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''Imagine how Dune must have seemed back in 1965 America, everything was progressing, technology was booming, there was new more progressive mindset among the young. The cold war was in full swing but even that had become a competition over resources and technology, the question was which ideology could win out. Either way humanity was on the path to one technological utopia or another.

 Star Trek reflected that, as did the liberal humanism of Issak Asimov's sci-fi. The past was a place of superstitions and primitive technology, the future would be a place of high technology and rationalism and equality. The path of history...