10 Small Details You Missed In Dune

10. The Lack Of Computers (The Butlerian Jihad)

Although much truer to the book series than David Lynch's Dune, the new movie still does leave out certain important details, mostly dealing with the backstory of how human society became structured the way it is.

Watching Dune, you may notice that something seems very different from your average sci-fi blockbuster. One of the biggest reasons is that in Dune, all computers (thinking machines) are banned. This is because thousands of years before the events of the movie, humanity lived in a world dominated by computers. Artificial intelligence had surpassed human intelligence and humans had become obsolete. Out of fear of being replaced, humanity rose up against the computers and destroyed them all in what became known as the Butlerian Jihad.

After the machines were all destroyed, all computers, even the most simple calculators were banned by the new empire. Only machines which did not use digital computations were allowed, such as basic engines and mechanical systems. Humanity realized that a computer is merely an artificial brain and, as the Orange Catholic Bible (created after the jihad) states, "thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind," both out of fear of being destroyed and being replaced.