Tag: Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov On Computers’ Inhumanity
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that once it is competently programmed and working smoothly—it is completely honest.
–Isaac Asimov, Change! Seventy-One Glimpses of the Future, 1981, p.17.
Part of the inhumanity of the computer
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that once it is competently programmed and working smoothly—it is completely honest.
–Isaac Asimov, Change! Seventy-One Glimpses of the Future, 1981
Isaac Asimov Radio Shack Ad for the Pocket TRS-80
This is an early 1980s Radio Shack ad feature Isaac Asimov shilling for the Pocket TRS-80, whcih was really just a rebranded Sharp PC-1211.
Eight Hour BBC Radio Adaptation of The Foundation Trilogy at Archive.Org
Archive.org is hosting an 8-hour spoken word adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s The Foundation Trilogy. The audio adaptation was first aired on the BBC in 1972 and apparently has fallen into the public domain (though the books themselves still remain copyrighted).