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Old 11-07-2011, 10:03 AM  
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I was reading a bunch of Arthur C. Clarke recently, and found it fascinating how naive we as a species were less than one hundred years ago.

So many things that were considered flights of fancy or outright nonsense in the 20th century are now basically taken for granted.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the owner of the term 'robotics' yet. Isaac Asimov.
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Asimov was a visionary writer. So was this guy.
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Old 11-16-2011, 08:44 AM  
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What I've read of Asimov is very dry. I've read more essays by him than fiction.
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