Isaac Asimov, Visions For The Future (1992)

[@IsaacAsimov1992]

In a single human being we have here a master of Science, master of Language and master of Communication. Surely one of the most profound intellects in the history of our species.

[@grantmcgowan8399]

Total agreement....someone should build a 100 foot statue in honour of this great man.... and place it in New York, perhaps in Central Park!

[@IsaacAsimov1992]

Yep, good idea. A beacon of enlightenment and wisdom smack bang in the middle of his home city.

[@TruAnRksT]

Equal to any named person you can mention.

[@jodonnell64]

TruAnRksT I think Asimov would have disagreed with you somewhat: "I have just finished The Cosmic Connection and loved every word of it. You are my idea of a good writer because you have an unmannered style, and when I read what you write, I hear you talking. One thing about the book made me nervous. It was entirely too obvious that you are smarter than I am. I hate that." Isaac Asimov, in letter to Sagan, 1973 As an aside, Asimov also had a great sense of humor. His comments at the beginning of every issue of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine were often hilarious.

[@TruAnRksT]

I have to agree Sagan was a giant but Isaac had a larger influence over my early years.

[@scifibri2376]

Isaac Asimov is one of the greatest prophets of secularism, scientific discovery and innovation!

[@larrybrennan1463]

I wrote him a few times. He always answered with a typed message on a postcard. He once explained that most questions could be easily handled that way, and postcards were cheap and didn't involve envelopes.

[@Titus-as-the-Roman]

As an avid reader and science nerd he was as close to a hero as I had, I often wanted to write him but every time I tried I realized how trivial my questions and comments were and eventually lost the nerve to do so. That postcard of yours would have been a cherished artifact to me.

[@PenRippyJr]

he was texting before everyone

[@Craftsman1984]

I cried when watching this, the man shaped my childhood here in scandinavia. I wish so badly I could have shown my appreciation somehow.

[@JackyTMusic]

You are. By commenting here and hence inspiring me to read more of his work, which is what he wanted :)

[@ibrahimeco]

Adrian my friend, same here...

[@IsaacAsimov1992]

Same here (Australia).

[@igor7074]

Born in USSR, now living in Israel. This little book "I robot" i read multiple times as a child and never it was boring. I dreamed about far away stars and here we are in 2021. God bless you all, Stay safe and healthy.

[@mutercimcime]

same here in turkey 😔

[@briangarrow448]

He was one of those rare minds who was able to explain complicated ideas into concepts even a dummy like me could understand. Truly an amazing gentleman. And his limericks were hilarious!

[@Titus-as-the-Roman]

I once had a book he wrote discussing the Human Brain, it was a marvelously written science text of all the knowledge of the day on the brain. I loaned it out to a friend who's son was recovering from severe brain trauma and I didn't have the nerve to ask for it back, she needed the book far more than I. Maybe I'll find another copy someday.

[@seankelly1291]

My life doesnt deserve a 6 minute intro like that. Richard Feynman, Fredrick Nietsche, and Issac Asimov. These are my heros.

[@euclidofalexandria3786]

Thank you for posting. I appreciate the effort and the time you put into getting this to the public :-) Have a great day.

[@MrDonkov]

One of my favorite SciFi writers, they could make many movies only from his ideas and stories. And even today his thinking is fresh and advanced.

[@MrDonkov]

Are you aware that 100 or 200 years ago, you would not have the time or energy to write this comment, because for whole day you had to work and toil in the fields or a factory? Not even mentioning the technology. As I see it technology is a great equalizer, it enables and makes the upward mobility so much easier - that is if you are willing to put in the effort and time into learning new things and actually do something. Also knowledge is no longer confined within small circles but is w i d e l y accessable, even from a mobile phone you can learn new things! Think about it. Asimov had it right.

[@HELLOHELLO-ws1us]

200 years ago, the average peasant could read and understand Shakespeare. Can you say the same thing about modern man? This is a world of specialists. General education is sub-standard; majority population is conditioned to graze on filth and excess. The elite entertain grand schemes for progress which does not include you or I. Thanks.

[@alexanderrose1556]

no 200 years ago the average peasant could not read shakespear, we actually have litteracy numbers from back then in many countries cases and a good amount of them were under 50% were today in most developed countries they are 99%

[@HELLOHELLO-ws1us]

Alexander Rose Thyren Try again. The American pioneer had Shakespeare and the Bible. And yes, he/she could read. Or did you never hear of Abe Lincoln?

[@alexanderrose1556]

You just completly ignored what i Wrote,did you not understand the words i used? We do infact have litteracy numbers from back then and mentioning one Guy as an example that could read is probaly some of the worst reasoning

[@jeffw1267]

I have Asimov's "Understanding Physics" book and it kicks ass. No one else could have made the concepts seem so understandable.

[@sagerider2]

I have a whole lot of his books, including Twin Planets. Oh, I understand the concepts, that's the problem with physics. You're a great big empty. You just think you're real. But, if the dreamer awakens. You're toast.

[@mwj5368]

So amazing to hear him speak right on 25 years ago about Higgs-Boson and about what is now the Hadron collider with CERN in Geneva, and exploring dark matter, magnetism... He speaks so clearly and flawlessly, like his observations and ideas flow from him like a fountain. Philosopher Joseph Campbell, and Bill Moyers conversations were like that, men too in touch with purpose. To possess a sense of purpose I feel in my amateur view is essentially a virtue, and I sense it here. The parts relate to whole and curiosity, innovation, exploration are of his horizon. The divine Isaac Asmov, just hearing his interviews and this 37 minute lecture, seems to have been a man very in touch with himself and his direction, a resonant being, and with such an energy of optimism, a youthful excitement, an air of agelessness about him. One of the great thinkers of the 20th Century. Thank you Uncle Traveling Matt, oh grand traveler of the greater realms, for sharing this!

[@sandal_thong8631]

Well, he was talking about the Superconducting Super Collider that the U.S. spent quite a lot of money on then cancelled in 1993. We still don't have an instrument that can do what this was supposed to do and found the Higgs-Boson despite that. Part of the reason was that scientists couldn't explain to politicians and the public what it was and likely to do.

[@zeycus]

I must have read like 100 of his books when I was a teenager, widened my horizons like nothing else could have done. Shaped my interests, my career, gave me a solid starting point to look at everything. Eternally thankful to the Good Doctor.

[@writer684]

amazing influence

[@bajabog]

great to see this video 23 years after its recording and realize the progress already achieved by mankind, can not wait to see this video again 50 years from now, or maybe in 2092

[@stellarguymk]

Just finished the first Foundation last night, can't wait to start the second one tonight.

[@WildBillCox13]

One of the iconic popularists. My childhood was afloat on a sea of potential created by Messers Asimov, Ed Hoyle, Heinlein, Cordwainer Smith, Theodore Sturgeon, and Algis Budrys . . . that sea inhabited by monsters from Lewis, Burroughs, Howard, Lovecraft . . . Ultimately, however, I encountered some of the most beautiful works of fiction in all my experience: Al Bester's "Stars my Destination", Resnick's "Ivory", Niven's "There is a Tide" . . . Jack Williamson's "Nowhere Near" . . . Repent Harlequin, Cried the Ticktockman . . . did someone say Speaker for the Dead? No? I'm sure I heard . . . And then cometh the Speed Limit of science fiction: The Clarke Theorum and its collaries. Hearing the man who wrote "2001 A Space Odyssey" cut from the science fiction fold anything involving "aliens or alien cultures" was like headbutting that antiproton as it races toward me in the LHC. Goodbye Bandersnatch . . . farewell Amsirs . . . sayonara Hrossa. Dasvidanya Andre Norton . . . Marion Zimmer Bradley . . . I realized at last, however, that it wasn't the science fiction that drew me to the genre; it was the Space Opera. Foundation . . . Poul Anderson's Leagues and Empires . . . Retief, The Stainless Steel Rat . . . Spindizzies, Puppeteer Planetary Helices, teleportation, precognition; nary a lick of hard science in any of it*, but so entertaining, so stimulating to the imagination, that it has validity as a social event. This stuff moved me to act; to enjoy, to reply; to write my own stuff . . . Stung to great effort and (hopefully) creative genius by my interactions with the minds of these speculative thinkers I have made it a work of my adulthood to create my own wide (and variously deep) "HornOx Universe" in which I set in space/time the frameworks of my various stories. And-yes; my galactic concourse is peopled with creatures both great and small, rulers and slaves, invaders and defenders, so I break Clarke's 3rd Theorum (AKA the "No Aliens Allowed" rule) with extreme preference. And it all started out with a few dog-eared copies of Conan Doyle, Kipling, and Asimov. "Vicissitudes . . ." And today we have spell check and autocorrect. *Tau Zero is pretty cool, however.

[@manamsetty2664]

You had a pretty awesome childhood I'm twenty now too late to be discovering all these wizards

[@WildBillCox13]

@@manamsetty2664 Reading for entertainment is on the way to becoming a lost art. As you were brought up in a modern age, I am stapled to the prejudices of my ancient one. To paraphrase Jeff Goldblum: "Art finds a way." As my world fades from memory, your s will find anchors, frontiers to explore, new forms of old arts to present to a fresh audience. To put it in the vernacular: "it's all good." ;-)

[@manamsetty2664]

@@WildBillCox13 ☺️🙏😀

[@davidhorn8004]

I ruined his childhood with dime store (we had them back then) smoke bombs and gravity defying transport. I'll blame it on Howard and Verne, but I caught up a bit later. For those of you wishing you had read more, just get a job where you live an hour outside a city with decent rail transit. Silence your devices but set an alarm for your stop... It's never too late. Classic sci-fi is timeless, it's not all about the tech. Meanwhile, 'Tulla Bloodhive' vs 'Brute Force' on the Intergalactic Sports feed as the ringball playoffs get underway!

[@WildBillCox13]

@@davidhorn8004 Never stop being you.

[@DarkZholt]

When I read Foundation, right in the beggining I was amazed how there was a device there that sounded way too similar to the iPad. This guy had so much insight about everything that it's almost scary.

[@bootstrapperwilson7687]

One g two n. Thus: Beginning

[@TheAIEpiphany]

Some of the things he was talking about are not SF anymore like: 1. The magnetic levitation trains (maglevs), and we're working on the vacuum versions as well - the hyperloop being a prominent example. 2. AI can also do many of the things he thought it won't be able to, the things we previously thought only humans and animals can do. Like see, hear, be creative (google neural style transfer, deep dream, GANs, DALL-E), beat the human champions in games like Go, chess, StarCraft (google AlphaZero, MuZero, AlphaStar), predict the 3D structure of the protein (AlphaFold2), etc. 3. We've since built particle colliders (like LHC) and we've discovered the Higgs boson. 4. We've detected the gravitational waves predicted by the Einstein's theory. The list goes on. Amazing. He mentioned flying to the moon as being beyond reach when he was young. Just recently S.Korea's Kstar ran nuclear fusion for 20 seconds at 100 M degrees! 10x the temperature at the kernel of our sun. Here on Earth. The line between science fiction and science fact keeps fading with every new decade. What a time to be alive.

[@FilthyandFree]

It's very lucky that someone so smart left us so much intelligence and wisdom behind. Issac Asimov would have been a guiding light, a beacon in today's troubled times. And just think of his excitement at SpaceX. Whenever I get sad, I think about how happy he would be to see where we are now. It's something I'm thinking of covering in a video on this channel, soon. Well, my channel. Not this one that we are on now.

[@eziosfara7891]

I discovered Asimov s science books 35+ years ago and I am a big fan ever since. First Asimov book I read exoplained the concept of entropy and blew my mind

[@upaya7178]

“...And when he could no longer write, he died. Asimov once described himself as being, in ascending order of importance: - A scientist - A science writer - A science-fiction writer And... the worlds GREATEST lover” BRAVO‼️🤣👏👏👏

[@courtlaw1]

I wish Isaac could have seen the times we live in now.

[@michaelbrophy1212]

Thanks so much for uploading this!

[@pasoapasoconmervo6734]

it is Heartbreaking to see him in his finals days in this conditions. Despite all the psichological pain, related to the way people see AISD in those years, he kept his mind on point until the end.

[@sandal_thong8631]

I only learned about this recently. There was nothing when he died about AIDS, and they only released that information in the early 2000s I'm told.

[@manullim]

I propose "Asimov" be a measure unit for artificial intelligence (AI). 1 Asimovs = Pre-programmed AI like in the industrial robots. 2 Asimovs = Semi-autonomous and adaptative AI. 3 Asimovs = Fully autonomous AI. Functional without human input. 4 Asimovs = AI with consciousness with personality from "life" experience. 5 Asimovs = Self-conscious AI with creative and imaginative capabilities. Cutting edge AIs are at around 3 Asimovs these days.

[@oldmanyellsatscreen]

4 is rapidly approaching.

[@manullim]

According to Yuval Harari (author of Sapiens, Homo Deus), consciousness and intelligence (smartness) do not necessarily go hand in hand....

[@oldmanyellsatscreen]

The consciousness element is lacking, but arguably an entity that can learn from past experiences and develop new behaviours is exhibiting a personality derived from experience, e.g. the Chess and Go AIs we have now.

[@yoloswag6242]

Asimovs should be a measure of AI malignance. 9000 asimovs is equivalent to Hal 9000

[@patricktilton5377]

As long as the AIs have the 3 Laws of Robotics etched into their positronic brains, though. If not, we'll be stuck with Terminators sent by Skynet to obliterate us all.

[@carloshs93]

Thanks for sharing bro!

[@LabRat10101]

No problem :D

[@thefanXF]

one of the brightest individuals ever lived on earth , hats down !

[@NicoleLittle-o2f]

This is still relevant in 2023. That's nuts.

[@WolfgangBrozart]

Awesome watching this now in the era of the JWST when at this time they were still wondering what we would see with Hubble.

[@fishapiller]

I wish I could have told him thank you for making those wonderful books 📚 I was 2 years old in 92 I would have loved to have talked to him he would probably Ben a blast to talk to

[@DavidLouisLouis-qh9ni]

This wonderful wonderful American Man changed my life in so many ways, A real Iconic intelligent well-spoken gentleman 👍‼️

[@lmntcrnstn4970]

"His knack for making the complicated simple, the confusing clear, and the mundane exciting will never be equaled." I'm a great fan of Isaac Asimov, but let's not rule out the possibility of another Great Explainer of Science.

[@axs203]

I listened to Nightfall the other day and it's amazing........the subtlety in it and the imagery that is painted.........he gave us all so many ideas. This video is interesting as well.....I wonder what he would make of 2017 with the Hadron Collider

[@txmetalhead82xk]

I remember reading one of his novels, and it was an absolute joy! Love his work

[@jimScienceNerd]

My sister had borrowed most of my Asimov books. When she passed away, my niece recycled them before asking me. She didn't realize the books were mine. Bummer!

[@billysaz1]

Wow!!! Talking about the Higg-Boson (spelling??) and quarks in 1992. This dude was a super brain!

[@RaviSingh-fv4sh]

There were many people who could talk the same at that time. They just don't get the chance in front of camera at that time.

[@wesleyrodgers886]

A fan of his fiction books, but also his non fiction. 'Atom' was my introduction to physics. I'll always be grateful to him for that.

[@RayRand]

Azimov had a strong influence on my life. I agree with him that we need to discuss whether "directing human evolution" and other scientific endeavors, are a good idea for humanity or not. Human beings have not proven themselves to have an impeachable character.

[@RussEastburn]

At this moment , me too.

[@williamhagen2792]

Reading Asimov will convince the reader he was paid by the word.

[@simonmountford1511]

There was a Library close by his Father's store; he read almost everything and, crucially, retained the information.

[@rubyhoney6177]

The last of the polymaths

[@jasontoddman7265]

29:00 - Asimov is basically predicting the plot of the Jurassic Park movies here. I think Jeff Goldblum's character must have been directly inspired by him in fact, as he says much the same things there as Dr. Asimov does here.

[@bukurie6861]

Isaac Asimov,Famious author American🤩🔥🌏

[@JohnStopman]

Isaac starts talking @ 6:43 *^_^*

[@jojoUK120]

Thanks😀

[@Kevin-p2l5b]

Great ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤.

[@prajnadattameher6210]

what he had vision for future he was right about the direction it will go.blew my mind.

[@mariamimms]

I, Robot ♥

[@dperetz7121]

He explains what others cannot.

[@Betelguez27]

the part about A.I. is simply incredible

[@robrich8294]

I think his ideas helped keep the piece among both the US & USSR due to his explaining about what will happen with nuclear weapons. His reality made a big difference as to what the outcomes will be in the future. Amazing insights and what a sharp mind. I wish he was around now as I just found out about him recently and would’ve had much to say to him and wished I could’ve exchanged information and knowledge. I thought I got wind of this man’s name from either Carl Sagan or Neil DeGrasse Tyson. What a immense amount of knowledge and what formidable insight on how space is so crucial to learn. Also robotics and problem solving is critical in our future. Artificial intelligence is unique and can propagate help but it can cause harm with hackers. Crazy how robots can think but it is true we will have robots doing work. Today I found out WalMart will be taking away the cashiers due to efficient automation. Also what is crucial to DNA and to keep human life healthy and what Weston A Price found out and MIT graduate Ron Schmid noticed that important utilization of nutrition by eating right reinforces the mitochondrial DNA. If both sexes wanting healthy kids. They BOTH needed to eat healthy 6 months before conception. This is CRUCIAL to reduce diabetes from occurring. I’m on this man’s wavelength of his ideology. Yeah superconductivity is invaluable.

[@VeN0m88]

What an amazing mind. Wish his annual memorial debates will continue In 2021 or 22 the latest.

[@onnnno1]

love him shamed he passed away loved to to have chat with him and e.e.doc smith who have big influences in my reading collection

[@hewasfuzzywuzzy3583]

With our current propulsion technology (like the space shuttle, traveling at a constant speed of 17,500-18,000 mph) it would take roughly 184,000 Earth years to travel to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri 4.5 light-years away. If humans tried to do this, what was human when it left this solar system would look and be radically different when or if reached the solar system of Alpha Centauri. Weird, is it not?

[@euclidofalexandria3786]

Those persist for trillions of years if I can recall....

[@ylette]

I love his way of explaining things. He would have been a great KZbinr.

[@thegox4931]

iSaAc AsiMoV The line between science-fiction and true science is often thin and sometimes difficult to define. Because the science-fiction find his root in the science. Today like you understand we gonna speak about science-fiction and the genius of this theme : Isaac Asimov In first place, we gonna speak about Isaac Asimov his self . In second place, we gonna speak about his vision from the future, and in third place we gonna speak about where Asimov was really a visionnary. Isaac asimov is born the 2 january one thousand nine hundred and twenty at Petrovitchi and he died the 6 april one thousand nine hundred and twenty. He is a science-fiction american-russian writer . This guy just published three hundred and thirty five booke . He was writing ten to twelve hours a day. He got a lot of a awards for science fiction writing and non-science fiction writing . That’s why he is also known as « the great explainer of science » . When he earned his bachelor of science degree and a PhD in chemistry, he received his appointment as an instructor in biochemistry at Boston University School . He beginned writing at age of 22. He created the term robotics in his classic irobot who was adapted to movie by Alex Proyas. Space travel : When Isaac Asimov begin to write science fiction way back in the nineteen thirties, that was a time when space travel was absolutely science-fiction. Even a trip to the moon was science-fiction like we can see in the famous movie from Georges Méliès « A trip to the moon » but in 21 july nineteen sixty nine Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon. So here we can se what was a dream yesterday is today a reality. Scienceis constantly evolving. So Isaac Asimov think that the next reachable objective is mars, and that we could go to mars we should create space station ( like the International space station ) who will be the launching pad to go to mars. The thing which is interesting with mars is the atmosphere of mars she have ice cap (=calotte glaciaire). She have sign of ancient river ( i remember hat the Mars Exploration Rover have found water on mars). In my opinion to a certain extent we are already gone to mars with « curiosity » so there is less interest to go out there. But there is Elon Musk who want to go to mars with his society space X by two thousand and twenty two. Asimov explain that space station would be great to learn about space . Once again asimov predict the future because the ISS is a space station

[@HadrianDan]

This complements the other 4 as a documentary with Isaac Asimov information and in films and/or video, a good 5th to propagate in a passable dimension for the saga.

[@HadrianDan]

Robot Dreams in the Robot saga is what savior of these Isaac Asimov novels. Real smart and more than possible which is no wonder is well accolades.

[@HadrianDan]

Largest strike is that discovery could actual read the whole novel and understand each chapter what the main or major ideas are being present in that writing script. Awesome stuff eh.

[@nidhibr]

🌟Amazed 🌟

[@mbrav]

23:31 does anyone know from which movie that gold robot is? It's the most aesthetically pleasing robot I've ever seen.

[@Jarnglofar]

It's Elektro, a robot built by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation and was featured in their 1939 and 1940 Worlds' Fair Exhibits.

[@euclidofalexandria3786]

There is telepathis driving, you simply choose a part of the journey, and you vizualize how it would feel to drive or be driven a certain way, and the machine intelligence can make it so to the T.

[@billg9502]

I read numerous authors on science but he was the truely the best teacher of science .He was aware of the problems that carbon dioxide would cause human extinction 30 years ago . He knew overpopulation would be the biggest reason for our demise . We should have listened to him 30 years ago . Now it may be too late .

[@Orf]

24:00 for the 1st time we will be truly free

[@dchook100]

Sad he died the same year from complications brought on from AIDS. He got AIDS from a blood transfusion while getting a triple bypass. Kept quiet for years because of the attitudes about AIDS; this was around 1983.

[@jibicusmaximus4827]

dchook100 how terrible.. I didn't know that.

[@jojoUK120]

Sounds like hell, poor guy- but I guess he’d have died much earlier without the bypass. 😞

[@mrglibb]

"And the world's greatest lover" what a guy lol

[@danishali6746]

He was good kid.... missing a lot present time.

[@elCastilloC]

Wow! que carga! tenía una visión impresionante!"

[@GereDJ2]

He's sort of an American H.G Wells. He has a great way of saying we don't know what we don't know.

[@noaharce6921]

I didn't know Isaac Asimov sounded like garfielf. This new knowledge will make it difficult to read the Foundation series the same way again.

[@justinalvarado7351]

OMG Why do I get the feeling Michio Kaku emulates this man

[@JD987abc]

I wonder if they are still holding the Isaac Asimov memorial debates at the American Natural History Museum in NYC?

[@davidwilkie9551]

"Free", definition that Issac Asimov used was "freedom from oppression", but Philosophers like Alain Botton pointed out that it's more like "choosing the restraint of optimization", because most alternate choices are detrimental, and the example he gave was keeping your dog on the leash when you take a walk. Ie we are all representations of how a human on planet Earth should live in a free society (?)

[@w.b.5369]

I was sad when he started talking about Mars. Still haven't done it... :/

[@prince-solomon]

Our robots have been there. That still counts. Humans will be there too within a few decades

[@MrMane8]

Asimov is top 3

[@CupcakeAndPythagoras]

Just so you guys know, this guy PUBLISHED... FUCKING PUBLISHED 335 books. His brain is packed with information.

[@Slowbuck1]

most of them were school books. but still over 120 fictional works

[@Petequinn741]

Now I know where musk got his ideas from.

[@eastafrica1020]

Was thinking the same thing.

[@sagerider2]

My favorite non fiction of his, is "Twin Planets."

[@Bokipwn]

31:45 he explained hyperloop

[@Jonohobs]

When I was at highschool, 'bout a decade ago, my friends were talking about the hyper loop after physics too haha

[@psychowordsmith]

Probably where Musk got the idea from.

[@T1000-s4j]

Omg he talks about solar sails 🤯

[@papalaz4444244]

it's a real shame - he forgot psychopaths exist and would destroy all that

[@papalaz4444244]

and he should have spotted that because that is exactly how The Mule disrupts galactic society. a psychopathic individual

[@Ibarbozza]

Obrigado ...

[@mugenyijonathan8407]

amazing upload , by the way did he write a special book for the mule ?

[@drewhargrove1392]

You mean Foundation and Empire & the first part of Second Foundation? Those are the two I know of. There are a few parts where The Mule's past is hinted.

[@Orf]

20:50 man will be freed from work

[@prince-solomon]

Instead of walking to a library and searching through hundreds or thousands of books you simply open up Google and within a fracture of a second you got millions of search results... lots of work has vanished thanks to computers! Many more chores will go in the coming decades.

[@jmm1233]

21:30 in hindsight computers can do the creativity and even now the intuition with neural networking and deep learning

[@dpatulea]

We need Warp speed and the "beam-me-up" machine.

[@craigbrownell1667]

*There* it is Found it [31:27]

[@jaamaan123]

Great !

[@roddmatsui3554]

The name “Traveling Matt” was itself a joke, in a TV puppet series that named a number of main characters on film, photography and special effects techniques: Spocket, Gobo.

[@jam63112]

I just watched "I, robot"

[@jodonnell64]

jam63112 My condolences. The movie hasn't much relation to the collection of short stories that "inspired" it.

[@winnieblews]

He must of had a very good clairvoyant. Very good initiate though.

[@RussEastburn]

What if your camera and mic were on ? Wouldn't that freak you out?

[@soumen_das]

Father of wolverine

[@sheilo2528]

Loving your novels, i just would have like you to write a little more abouts aliens and blacks holes and that things.... but i think it would be too much to ask.... anyway nobody like you master!!! Greetings from Chile

[@Sirfev2010]

that intro

[@2DReanimation]

When they showed the moon getting hit in the eye by that "bullet craft", I searched "can a railgun bullet escape earths gravity?". lol. Yes, I've also read Jules Verne. But it's still an interesting possibility! At least you can get some kilometers up, then turning on a smaller rocket. Perhaps even a plasma, solar-aided engine would suffice. But the railgun would have to accelerate a bit slower, and it would have to be a hella sturdy rocket.

[@asenaemre]

Excellent!...alas, certain things are now dated. For example, the promise of the Genome Project and its failure to deliver on its ambitions is not noted here (Understandable, given that the presentation was made in 1992 before the completion and effective failure of the Genome Project).But other things stated are still of direct relevance to us; although superconductors, and the superindustrial civilization this would imply, have yet to obtain fruition: one hopes it does.

[@RodCalidge]

He also advocated for mutton chops. So there's that.

[@RichardCorral]

hey im a self confessed genius too! and the greatest lover

[@LabRat10101]

superb.

[@Pincer88]

Too bad most of the SF we get today is a mere background for special effects and Holywood stardom, hardly anything as profoundly intelligent as Asimovs eloquence.

[@RadicalRoots23]

How do we know his ability to make all that stuff clear will NEVER be equalled?

[@petrichor649]

A magnificent man

[@TruAnRksT]

23:00+ Yep.