What is the minimum number of people you need in order to maintain (not necessarily to extend) our current level of technological civilization?
A puzzling question, though I think the estimate from the article is widely underestimated.
Pink Floyd doing the soundtrack. Jean Giraurd the art. Orson Wells as the Baron Vladimir Harkonnen and Salvador Dali as the Emperor of the Known Universe. It was simply too grand, too ambitious. Too many wishes were coming true for it to all hold together. Jodorowsky must have sensed even from the beginning that this movie could only exist as an ideal.
The story of Dune film adaptation that was never made but still made enormous impact on SF genre.
