Showing posts with label Isaac Asimov. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Isaac Asimov. Show all posts
Thursday, June 05, 2025

Graduations

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Earlier this week we attended the high-school graduation of one of our grandsons. (Summa cum laude!) Recently I read a joke somewhere to the...
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Yesterday's Tomorrow

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Another glance at some futuristic inventions from fiction that have come into real existence, in this case from the cartoon series THE JETSO...
Thursday, November 07, 2024

One Person, One Vote?

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In Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, Lord Vetinari, the Patrician who rules the largest city, embraces the principle of "one man,...
Thursday, July 27, 2023

Gray Goo Doomsday?

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Could runaway nanobots take over the planet? "Gray goo is a term used to describe a lifeless world completely occupied by self-replic...
Thursday, May 12, 2022

Writing to the Future

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Cory Doctorow's latest LOCUS column, on writing nonfiction pieces that will still be relevant by the time they're published: Six W...
Thursday, September 30, 2021

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

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The October 2021 issue of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC features a pair of lead articles about "green" power for aircraft and cars, mainly e...
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Thursday, September 23, 2021

Writers' Rituals

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Here's an article by Stephen Graham Jones that cautions writers against falling into the habit of depending on "rituals" to st...
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Thursday, September 09, 2021

More Futuristic Forecasts

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"Prediction is hard, especially about the future." Over the past week, I've been rereading LIFE AND TIME, a 1978 collection of...
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Thursday, September 02, 2021

Failures of Prediction

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To dispose of one point up front, of course we know the purpose of science fiction isn't literally to predict future technology and soci...
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Thursday, August 26, 2021

Can AI Be a Bad Influence?

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In a computer language-learning experiment in 2016, a chat program designed to mimic the conversational style of teenage girls devolved into...
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Thursday, August 05, 2021

RoboDogs

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Is the public ready for a RoboDog on the police force? New York City, Honolulu, and the Dutch national police force have tried a robotic pol...
Thursday, July 09, 2020

Catalogs of Apocalypses

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I'm reading a new anthology called APOCALYPTIC, edited by S. C. Butler and Joshua Palmer. Not surprisingly, the stories tend toward down...
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Thursday, January 02, 2020

SF Seasons

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Happy New Year! The days begin to lengthen, even if imperceptibly at first, but nevertheless I have to brace myself for over two months mor...
Thursday, February 22, 2018

Is the World Improving?

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Psychologist Steven Pinker has just published a new book, ENLIGHTENMENT NOW, a follow-up to his 2011 book THE BETTER ANGELS OF OUR NATURE: W...
Thursday, August 31, 2017

Food Production of the Future

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Here's an article about tabletop greenhouses controlled by a computer program: A Byte to Eat Food computers "use up to 90 perce...
Thursday, August 03, 2017

Computers Talking Among Themselves

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"An artificial intelligence system being developed at Facebook has created its own language." AI Invents a Language Humans Can...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Twitter Chat On Isaac Asimov

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On July 8th, 2011, @DavidRozansky the publisher at Flying Pen Press I've mentioned many times here, supplied the #scifichat topic of a t...
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Tuesday, September 14, 2010

What Exactly Is Editing Part VII - How Do You Know If You Are A Writer Or Editor?

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The previous 6 parts of this series explored the world from the point of view of an Editor. The Editor archetype has made great POV charac...
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