Dune is a book about education. Sure, it’s also a space opera novel about drugs, genetics, and oil politics. But what defines the characters are their education, and Paul’s education makes him the ultimate mentat-warrior-diplomat-godhead. In this article, I deconstruct his education and propose an education program that will prepare learners for the (inevitable) near sci-fi future.

"We will one day soon each have our own ‘mental palace’ expressed in multiple interfaces — a mental/cognitive and digital/visual place where we store our memories, which we can access via augmented reality and eventually, neural interface." - Possibly today with Stable Diffusion?

There's a lot of interesting sci-fi examples for what education technology can be like in this piece. It's definitely worth a read.

Interesting, I always found Paul to be intentionally difficult for the reader to relate

This take is interesting but it’s worth noting that in the Duniverse, thinking machines (AI) are banned as a result of a massive human vs AI war.

“Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.”