As a potentially valuable by-product, McDaniel's firearms-training programs provided results capable of shocking the society into the realization that it still knew very little about the potential capabilities of human performance, and how to train people to outstandingly perform the fine motor-skills that are of critical importance in our machine-dominated society. But as that did not happen, society's yearn for a quantum leap in human capabilities, as represented by the popularity of Frank Herbert's science fiction novel "Dune", and Robert A. Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land", and later, by "The Force" featured in George Lucas' "Star Wars" films, remains today a largely unrealized dream.