1965: ISAAC ASIMOV's 3 laws of ROBOTICS | Horizon | Past Predictions | BBC Archive

[@daveac]

Great insight for his time - love his short stories & books - read quite a few over many years starting from about 1961 or 62 (yes I'm in my seventies)

[@heimomoilanen9654]

Welcome to the club 😀👋

[@coopernickerson7470]

Simply brilliant visionary writer of his time back then.

[@fuccasound3897]

now i know where Kit Pedlar got the idea for the Cybermen, who appeared for the first time in Doctor Who not long after this Horizon show was aired.

[@danielsjohnson]

"Things are moving so quickly" he says. Sounds like today.

[@Kol_0oo]

He really called it.

[@TonyP_Yes-its-Me]

Has anyone else noticed the peculiar way he says "Robot". "Robut". Maybe he was right, and we are all wrong, after all he was writing his robot stories, less than 20 years after the word was first used in the English language.

[@vaguerant]

"Robut" is typical of the north-eastern US Jewish-American accent, which Asimov has. For a modern reference, see Futurama's Dr. Zoidberg.

[@squaresensei]

@@vaguerant Umm ... it sounds more like a Russian influenced accent to me.

[@StoutProper]

Pretty sure it’s was Czech word originally and that’s how it’s supposed to be pronounced

[@pjabrony8280]

That seems to be the pronunciation up until about 1970. Watching SF shows like The Outer Limits and The Twilight Zone shows people saying it the same way. Also, it's worth noting that while the word "robot" comes from Slavic language, Asimov created the word "robotics" to mean the science of robots, basing it on words like physics or electronics.

[@bitterseeds]

It's much like how the pronuncation of data changed after Picard's pronunciation when addressing Lt. Cmder Data. Things change and not everyone pronounces words the same.

[@ftsstiffmiester4528]

simple but elegant.

[@tweakiepop]

Dr. Zoidberg I presume? ‘Robuts’

[@TheMastermind729]

Damn… he predicted the Battlestar galactica reboot!

[@stevenserna910]

Bio engineering's 1st concepts. Wow.

[@JPOOLENTERPRISES]

very interesting

[@passiveaggressive6175]

Back in the day when our greatest writers and thinkers greatest ambition was to make tenure!😅

[@public.public]

Did Isaac Asimov pass the Voight Kampff test?

[@donnyboon2896]

Robert A. Heinlein's friend.

[@mafftv3801]

These are the laws they used in the film iRobot

[@flaggerify]

Badly.

[@matturban9103]

That movie was a train wreck.

[@mafftv3801]

@@matturban9103 I agree

[@ashtonalmond9024]

RoboCop too

[@simonburley2692]

Asimov created The Laws because he thought all robot stories up until then had the same plot - Frankenstein. When they finally made a “film of his work” it used the same old Frankenstein plot. He would have been disappointed to say the least. He also created Susan Calvin as the antithesis of the portrayal of women in media inc. fllms. But she was also reset to the industry norm. Again he would have been disappointed. Unfortunately the film was a really well made enjoyable popcorn flick. It just shouldn’t have claimed any link to Asimov’s work.

[@tacwitness]

I would not be shocked to find out Bruce Mahler based the voice of Rabbi Kirschbaum in Seinfeld off Isaac Asmiov's speaking voice. The Rabbi's speech is only slightly exaggerated but it's Asimov-based, I'm sure of it.

[@peterjama1725]

i wonder wat his iq level is