Isaac Asimov

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. — Isaac Asimov

American writer and professor of biochemistry Isaac Asimov was born on this day, January 2, in 1920.

Painting of Asimov on his throne by Rowena Morill, via Wikimedia Commons When New York City hosted The World's Fair in 1964, Isaac Asimov, the prolific sci-fi author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, took the opportunity to wonder what the world would look like 50 years hence -- assuming the world survived the nuclear threats of the Cold War. Writing in The New York Times, Asimov imagined a world that you might partly recognize today, a world where:

Worlds different. Robots are essentially decent. Susan Calvin, when questioned about whether Robots are so different from humans Robots (sometimes known as Positronic Robots or Asenian Robots) are a sapient artificial race of mechanical humanoids equipped with positronic brains and originally manufactured by U.S. Robots and Mechanical Men. They are notably bound to obey the Three Laws of Robotics, which form an intrinsic part of the positronic brain's coding, and thus cannot be left out of…

Isaac Asimov predicted the internet 25 years back.

Foundation by Isaac Asimov

CHANGE OF CREDIT: Cover art by Alan Craddock, according to ISFDB.org.

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