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Tag Archives: futurism
The Complete Robot
The Complete Robot© 1982 Isaac Asimov688 pages A boom in electronic engineering followed World War 2, one that led to consumer televisions, the first computers, and a wide variety of other electricity-using gadgets. As people looked more toward the future, … Continue reading
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Tagged Asimov's Robots, futurism, Isaac Asimov, science fiction, vintage SF
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Contact
Contact© 1985 Carl Sagan432 pages “We could be in the middle of an intergalactic conversation — and we wouldn’t even know.” – Michio Kaku, “Our Place in the Universe“. Dr. Eleanor Arroway, known as “Ellie” to her few intimates, is … Continue reading
The Roving Mind
The Roving Mind© Isaac Asimov 1983350 pages In the first place, I type quickly — 90 words a minute, when I am happy, carefree, and in a good mood. And that’s my typing rate when I am composing, too, because I don’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Astronomy, essays, futurism, Isaac Asimov, science, skepticism
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Brave New World
Brave New World © 1932 Aldous Huxley 270 pages In Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman introduced the book with his suspicion that Brave New World’s predictions were coming to fruition — namely, that human happiness will be pursued by … Continue reading
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Tagged "classic", banned book, Classics and Literary, dystopia, futurism, Man vs Machine, Man vs State, social criticism, Society and Culture
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Where Do We Go From Here?
Where Do We Go From Here?ed. Isaac Asimov, © 1971 Where Do We Go From Here, a short-story collection assembled by Isaac Asimov, is more than the usual collection of short stories. Asimov introduces it in this way: “I have … Continue reading
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Tagged futurism, humanities, Isaac Asimov, science fiction, short story collection
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Buy Jupiter and Other Stories
Buy Jupiter and Other StoriesIsaac Asimov, © 1979207 pages Today while in the library taking notes for my two term papers, I read through Buy Jupiter and Other Stories. I did not intend to finish it, but I realized I … Continue reading
This Week at the Library (3/7)
I’ve had a lot of good reading the last few weeks, which is not suprising given how heavily steeped my library selections were in science. I began with Before the Dawn by Nicholas Wade. The cover of the book is … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, backdated, banned book, Donald M. McKale, Earth's Children, futurism, history, humanities, Isaac Asimov, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Jean M. Auel, Kahlil Gibran, Lewis Wolpert, Nature, Nicholas Wade, poetry, psychology, science, V.S. Ramachandran, week in review
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