I'd love to do a guest article sometime. I'll send it using the contact form on your about page, probably sometime later this week.

Would you like to write a guest post on my blog?

I totally agree that what makes Dune stand out from the crowd is Herbert's wisdom. There are other sci-fi epics out there, but none speak to me as eternally as Dune. I almost ended up writing my thesis on it, but the topic was denied due to some personal anger the dean had towards me from other years.

The wisdom I find most personally inspiring from Dune is the message of self improvement and growth of the species. People often talk of a coming technological singularity as something driven by ever faster hardware, but I remind them that each human brain contains more neurons than there are transistors on the planet. If we want to grow, we don't need bigger memory banks or faster brains – everything we need, we already have. The real challenge is to figure out how to use it.

Why is it that elementary schools are neglected while colleges receive the big money? It's as infants that we create the mental programs that will dominate our thinking for the rest of our lives. I truly believe that both mentats and witches (without the mystical memory-sharing; instead try a hard wired radio-link kind of memory sharing) are possible, starting tomorrow.

I'm no literary master like Herbert, but I'm trying to embed the same sense of wisdom and mystery into my own book (http://threewestwinds.com/book). There's also a Bene Gesseret and a Mentat, 'cause they're cool.

I need to learn this…
Steph