Asimove’s LOR During the halcyon days of technological innocence, Isaac Asimov wrote “I, Robot” – a collection of 9 short stories set in a world in which humans and robots co-exist. This co-existance was predicated on three rules that Asimov invented and named ‘The Laws of Robotics’ (LOR), The LOR laid down essential principles governing [...]
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Virtual Crime e-Pays.. NOT
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Archetypes, Narratives, TheoriesTags: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke, Artificial Intelligence: AI, avatar, avatar crime, Blade Runner, Brian Aldiss, Domicilium Citandi Et Executandi, Hal, I, Isaac Asimov, Kubrick, Laws of Robotics, LOR, Matrix trilogy, Paul Verhoeven, Philip K. Dick, Ridley Scott, Robot, Si-Fi, Steven Spielberg, technophobia, Total Recall, Virtual actuality, Virtual Crime, virtual jurisdiction, Wachowski brothers
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50 years after everybody quits laughing
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in ArchetypesTags: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke, Clarke's three laws of prediction, Extra-Terrestrial Relays, Isaac Asimov, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of t, Rendezvous with Rama, Robert Heinlein, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction, Stanley Kubrick, The Sentinel
Together with Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, who passed away yesterday (18 March), is considered one of the fabled triumvirate of Science Fiction writers who changed the way we view their genre, and modern science. Strangely, I feel, Clarke will forever be known mostly for the 1968 movie adaptation of “The Sentinel“, [...]