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If there was one author Henry Bott disliked more than any other, it was Isaac Asimov. Asimov put the magazine down and began typing a letter to Imagination. This time, he would not attempt to ...
From what he originally called the fix-up sci-fi collection to the words he invented in its stories, here’s what you need to know about Asimov’s ‘I, Robot,’ which turns 75 this year.
Isaac Asimov had a PhD in chemistry. His first sci-fi story was rejected by a publisher in 1938. (Photo by Phillip Leonian from New York via Wikimedia Commons) One of the greatest science-fiction ...
In the wake of transformative advancements in artificial intelligence, the venerable tenets established by Isaac Asimov—his iconic Three Laws of Robotics—are well established as a foundational ...
Neil deGrasse Tyson I could fill this column with quotes from the most educated and ... manifestation of long-running societal trends. As Isaac Asimov summed it decades ago, “There is a cult of ...
It is only upon rereading it that I am struck by Asimov’s impatience with his fellow human beings. This simmering impatience burst into the open in “The Cult of Ignorance,” an essay Asimov ...