Actually, computers were banned because humans were enslaved to thinking machines for several millennia.
The butlerian jihad is when mankind rose up and physically destroyed every "thinking machine". Then they developed mentat schools to make human calculators / logicians.
> Actually, computers were banned because humans were enslaved to thinking machines for several millennia.
Only if you accept Brian Herbert's additions to the canon. Assuming that, like all right-thinking people, you treat those as apocryphal, it's left _very_ vague as it exactly what it was all about, and it's at least implied that it was not particularly rational.
You can find people today who'll tell you that humans are enslaved by computers because, I dunno, we use TikTok too much or something.
