Hello, as she said, I'm Leanne Sharp, and I'm here to introduce Frank Herbert.

But before we do that, we have a couple of announcements we have to do in conjunction for

Engineers Week.

A year after the release of Chapter House, Dune, Frank Herbert was invited to speak to a group of engineering students at UCI.

He was there to speak on a very on-brand topic.

That's it for the announcements for Engineers Week, and I'd like to introduce Frank Herbert. He's written many books, 27

and all, probably most familiar with the Dune series. He's also written things like the

Eyes of Heisenberg, The White Plague, Worlds of Frank Herbert, and his newest book, Chapter

House 1. He currently resides in the Olympian Peninsula in Washington and has a winter home in Hawaii.

And today we'll be talking about is mythology of futurism.

During the next 30 or so minutes, Frank speaks on much more than just the mythology of futurism,

covering everything from his inspirations for writing Dune to the flaws of scientific thinking.

I'm going to declare a heresy for you. All science goes back to something that we believe because we believe it, and we have no proof for it. It's like a religion. But as we increase what we think

we know, we increase our exposure to what we do not know. This is one of the inevitable laws

of our universe. But isn't it more interesting to live in a universe where there are

unknowns to discover?

After his speech, there's a Q&A portion.

One of the students takes the mic and begins their question with a bit of flattery.

Mr. Herbert, I'm on your right.

Okay. Over there?

Yeah.

As a major author of great creativity and insight, you have gained the respect of millions.

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