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[callistra]

Asimov's 1974 lecture on what he thinks our future will be like:

http://www.pluto.no/litteratur/free_txt/pdf/Asimov_Isaac/The_Future_of_Humanity.pdf

Very interesting reading.
:-)

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Interesting indeed...says lisa

[(Anonymous)]

It's amazing how someone so foresighted as him could have really been a part of the last century! And equally as amazing that he was right and almost wrong on some subjects. It really has made me think more about how so many people I know struggle with fertility... makes me think of that whole story-arc that Stargate SG-1 followed...immunisations and the like forcing sterility. The way he put it all in perspective really started the paranoia wheels turning.

I need to go and re-read his books that we have on the shelf now...I wikipedia'd him, and read his comments, this one stuck in my mind:-

"What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for", September 20, 1973, Yours, Isaac Asimov, page 329.

I think I'll prolly go blog some more on this on mine:P Thanks, Calli:)

Re: Interesting indeed...says lisa

[callistra.livejournal.com]

I cried when Asimov died. He's right, he is remembered for the Foundation series and the Three Laws of Robotics. The Three Lawsa are just so... perfect. And ... anyway, I'm drunk. Wheee!

I didn't realise just how clearly he saw, until I read that pdf of his lecture. It must have hurt him, to be able to see like that.

Re: Interesting indeed...says lisa

[(Anonymous)]

The thing that got me about him, was that his death was AIDS related, due to blood transfusion,and his doctors advised his family and himself not to let it be known, due to negative publicity to them all. That's crap. I just love how they waited 10 years until his doctors died, and then his wife published it in a book about him:)

And if it hurt him, imagine how much it hurt his wife to hear about it all the time:P I'm married to a writer (not published yet!), and sometimes understanding him is painful. Visions of how the future will pan out is sometimes a little strange, to say the least:)