the Butlerian Jihad is a conflict taking place over 11,000 years in the future, which results in the total destruction of virtually all forms of "computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots. With the prohibition “Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind,” the creation of even the simplest thinking machines is outlawed and made taboo, which has a profound influence on the socio-political and technological development of humanity in the Dune series
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