Asimov, Foundation, & Democracy
In the 1950s, Isaac Asimov prophesied the end of democracy. No one else was thinking in this way:
https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=33&id=129
#asimov
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The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that #democracy means that "my #ignorance is just as good as your #knowledge."
en.wikiquote.orgIsaac Asimov - Wikiquote
Wie immer sind Jörgs Beiträge zu diesem Thema klasse!
"Wie sieht eine KI Bewusstsein?"
https://youtu.be/Upii7VZT6y4?si=lZgqz8aEGoQDyRwC
#ki #Bewusstsein #asimov #zukunft #future #Robots #chance #fear #iovalis
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Having read many sci-fi novels over the decades and seeing all to many converge on our reality,
I've always seen #TheMatrix as a not unlikely destiny for humanity.
We will soon be the less intelligent species competing for the same vital resources and are training them on human behavior without even trying to implement #Asimov's laws.
This can only go the way of #PhilipKDick's #SecondVariety:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112664763147341064
(*Brilliant*, free audiobook.)
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Wobei jede große #Religionsgemeinschaft und also auch #Kirche mal als #Sekte angefangen hat...
Ist nicht leicht zu akzeptieren, gehört aber in jede #Seldon - Kalkulation! :-)
Natur des Glaubens · Die Apple-Fernsehserie Foundation nach den Romanen von Isaac AsimovDr. Michael Blume feiert die crossmediale Digitalisierung der Science-Fiction-Buchreihe "Foundation" von Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992).
An entertaining mix of sci-fi and a detective story, dated and simple.
The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov
6/10
“𝙸𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚗 𝚊𝚌𝚌𝚒𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚘𝚏 𝚎𝚟𝚘𝚕𝚞𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚗𝚎𝚌𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚕𝚢 𝚊𝚗 𝚊𝚍𝚟𝚊𝚗𝚝𝚊𝚐𝚎.”
― 𝘐𝘴𝘢𝘢𝘤 𝘈𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘰𝘷
Gus Posey If you enjoyed the first book, this will be like remembering you still have half a sandwich.
Analogía relevante de Asimov con los coches y las ciudades.
Open CultureIsaac Asimov Describes How Artificial Intelligence Will Liberate Humans & Their Creativity: Watch His Last Major Interview (1992)Artificial intelligence may be one of the major topics of our historical moment, but it can be surprisingly tricky to define.
"[...] da un lato, c’è un divulgatore che ha democratizzato la conoscenza scientifica; dall’altro, un personaggio controverso che incarnava alcuni degli aspetti più problematici della cultura nerd. Il suo rifiuto di scrivere poeticamente o simbolicamente o sperimentalmente per privilegiare la chiarezza è stato sia un dono ai lettori sia, forse, un limite alla sua opera narrativa."
https://fumettologica.it/2025/04/isaac-asimov-libri-fantascienza/
#fantascienza #scifi #asimov
Fumettologica · Isaac Asimov ha scritto di tuttoCon oltre 500 libri scritti in vita, Isaac Asimov è stato un gigante nel panorama della letteratura, non solo fantascientifica.
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Para equilibrar un poco las cosas, #Asimov tiene toda la pinta de ser neurodivergente, aunque en su época no se diagnosticaban mucho esas cosas, y era un judio contrario a la creación del Estado de Israel, pues se olía lo que luego pasó.
Finished the third novel of Isaac #asimov #foundation series, Second Foundation.
Just what the hell is wrong with publishers using FOUR different fonts in the same edition?
Just WHAT?
Ah, I forgot. Random House is the publisher, they pick the fonts at random 
Hoy 6 de abril, pero de 1992, fallece el maestro Isaac Asimov, ese día perdimos su talento para escribir ciencia ficción, su genialidad, su inventiva y sus pensamientos sobre la humanidad.
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I've always seen #TheMatrix as a not unlikely destiny for humanity.
We will soon be the less intelligent species competing for the same vital resources and are training them on human behavior without even trying to implement #Asimov's laws.
This can only go the way of #PhilipKDick's #SecondVariety:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112664763147341064
(Brilliant, free audiobook.)
Discover the Magazine that created a revolution in 20th Century US Pop Culture, "Amazing Stories"
https://vibesmagazine.blog/amazing-stories-when-sci-fi-became-adult-and-pop-culture-changed-forever/
#AmazingStories, #HugoGernsback, #sciencefiction , #pulpmagazine, #genrecreation, #fandom, #americanliterature, #popculture, #buckrogers #HugoAwards, #asimov, #wells #verne #literaryfiction #history #spielberg #superman #vibes_mgzn
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Full text:
A CULT OF IGNORANCE
ISAAC ASIMOV/MY TURN
It’s hard to quarrel with that ancient justification of the free press: “America’s right to know.” It seems almost cruel to ask, ingenuously, “America’s right to know what, please? Science? Mathematics? Economics? Foreign languages?”
None of those things, of course. In fact, one might well suppose that the popular feeling is that Americans are a lot better off without any of that tripe.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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Apropos to illiteracy in America, the late great Isaac Asimov's essay A Cult of Ignorance is worth reading! It's the source of the famous quote that
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
Read the whole thing in PDF here: https://aphelis.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ASIMOV_1980_Cult_of_Ignorance.pdf
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