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Isaac Asimov

June 2023

  • Queues to withdraw money in Hong Kong on 30 December 1999, due to fears about the millennium bug’s effects on technology.

    The Y2K bug should teach us to be wary of AI

  • The 2004 film adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s book I, Robot, starring Will Smith.

    The existential threat from AI – and from humans misusing it

September 2021

  • Jared Harris as Hari Seldon in Foundation.

    TV review
    Foundation review – a galaxy of money can’t save Apple’s Star Dreck

  • Epic sci-fi … Enoch in the new adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation.

    From Hogwarts to inter-galactic space: how Alfred Enoch’s career rocketed

January 2020

  • Moon shot: ‘The thought of an algae diet won’t strike earthmen as particularly desirable.’

    From the Observer archive
    From the archive: Will you emigrate to the moon?

  • William Gibson in his backyard, Vancouver, Canada. For Saturday Review only

    William Gibson: ‘I was losing a sense of how weird the real world was'

November 2018

  • Isaac Asimov is credited with inspiring many scientists in the field of artificial intelligence.

    Perils and ethics of new driverless cars

    Letters: Guardian readers respond to David Edmond’s article about the moral arguments surrounding driverless cars

February 2018

  • Kenan Malik

    Is the answer that we have run out of good questions?

    Kenan Malik
    We are supposed to be inquisitive and yet …

April 2017

  • A robot on display at last month's CeBit computer fair in Germany

    We need a plan for tech, not a wishlist

    Letters: To build technology that is fair, people need a voice in the companies and places where it is developed

February 2017

  • IRobot image BBC

    The week in radio: The Rise of the Robots; I, Robot; In Our Time: John Clare

    Isaac Asimov’s prophetic play and Adam Rutherford’s The Rise of the Robots revealed that our fear of machines is nothing new

June 2016

  • Children's books
    I, Robot by Isaac Asimov – review

    Jiyon: ‘Asimov’s tales are very gripping and fast-paced’

March 2016

  • Welcome to the machine … a still from The Matrix

    Damien Walter's weird things
    When AI rules the world: what SF novels tell us about our future overlords

    Science fiction has offered many visions of a computer-controlled future, and the future doesn’t look good for humanity

February 2016

  • Letter from Dr Seuss to library in Troy, Michigan

    ‘A library is like a room full of friends’: stars' letters to young readers

    In 1971, a librarian asked famous names in the arts, sciences and politics to write to the children of Troy, Michigan, encouraging them to cherish their new public library. Respondents included author Dr Seuss, first lady Pat Nixon, astronaut Neil Armstrong and the pope

March 2015

  • Great Gatsby

    Books blog
    Was 1925 really the best year for literature?

    The BBC Culture website has chosen 1925 as “the greatest year for books ever”. Hemingway’s debut, Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway and The Great Gatsby certainly made for a glorious twelve months. But do you agree? And what other literary years could give 1925 a run for its money?

November 2014

  • Isaac Asimov

    Books blog
    Isaac Asimov’s Foundation novels: are they really filmable?

    Interstellar writer Jonathan Nolan is set to have a go – and it would be a magnificent future if he can pull it off

August 2014

  • NASA Robonaut 2

    Damien Walter's weird things
    Space Opera strikes up again for a new era

    Damien Walter: From Guardians of the Galaxy to Ancillary Justice, sci-fi is returning to alien worlds where distinctly earthly, political dramas play out
  • Automata robot

    Week in geek
    Can Automata’s rise of the robots bring science fiction to life?

    Science fiction’s big ideas don’t translate well to the screen – either smothered in syrup by directors (A.I.) or played for laughs (Starship Troopers). Does the latest Antonio Banderas robot blockbuster mark a new dawn, asks Ben Child
  • Jess Zimmerman

    Jess Zimmerman column
    Stop predicting the future. Leave that to the robot who's going to steal your job

    Jess Zimmerman
    Jess Zimmerman: From Asimov’s vision of 2014 to futurist ‘experts’, we have no idea what’s next. Know-it-alls need to stop pretending they do

June 2014

  • Authors Dickens, Eliot, Parker and Hemingway

    How authors from Dickens to Dr Seuss invented the words we use every day

  • world fair

    We need to bring back the World's Fair

    Ann Friedman
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