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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
And not all classics must be from before the 1900's either.
I am reading Asimov now (the Foundation series). And I think his robot stories should be a must-read for everybody. But you won't see Asimov on any "classics" list.
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now but I'm sure it'll happen.
Asimov was great in tech and social development predictions, as was Verne in his times.
Both show descriptions of tech, which after reality followed, turn out to be half fitting and half far too archaic. So both authors have dreamt too cautious
Remember the scanner-pen used by academics which Asimov described in one of his shorts?
It was said the pen works with microfiche.
Now we have a pens with ARM-processor built in and doing OCR on-the-fly:
cpen.com
His laws of robotics are now afaik seriously accepted and taken into consideration by AI scientists.
His predicted decay of human abilities due to rising tech-level are known concerns too.