Isaac Asimov

What an education is, and the purpose of it isn’t the same through the eyes of everyone. There are many points that make a true education. “A sign-post is of no earthly use unless the person who consults it wants to go somewhere.” ( Robert Shafer “A People’s Working Education”). If the student doesn’t have the desire to learn he or she won’t. The quote explains that the sign-post, or teacher, has no earthly use unless the person who consults it, the student, wants to go somewhere, or get an…

I felt deeply identified with Neil Gaiman's approach to reading and daydreaming, since I really felt it cleared my mind, relating daydreaming to reading. I never thought about this relationship until today. I consider his article was very touching, since he uses his own experience and memories to illustrate his idea, which I find quite accurate, not only because I have read and discussed about this before, but also because I just felt it was true. Since I was a child, I was aware that…

Feng Xiong Artificial food, as a long-existing notion (e.g. Isaac Asimov mentioned artificial veal in his novel The Gods Themselves), has been the center of debate for long. I had always held a negative view against artificial food and its technology. However, one of my friends, who studies chemistry at college, thought highly of it. Last weekend we had a long conversation (nearly debate) about the topic whether we should advocate artificial food and the technology of making it. (Artificial…

Motherly Smart Would mothers be considered book smart or street smart in "What Is Intelligence" by Isaac Asimov? Mothers can be both book and street smart because of their motherly instincts. Do mothers always know what's best because they are book smarts? Book smart in the sense that they are wise and know how to give advice and support their child. But then again, many mothers are street smart too, they know how to deal with the circumstances and the issues of the world. Street smart in the…

One of America’s darkest times in it’s history is known as the Great Depression. Isaac Asimov, a historical writer, once stated, “No one can possibly have lived through the Great Depression and not be scared by it. No amount of experience since the depression can conceive someone who has lived through it that the world is safe economically.” (Isaac Asimov) The country really struggled during this time, as jobs and money were scarce, impacting everyone throughout the nation. But not all of the…

While The Machine That Won the War by Isaac Asimov and The Story of an Hour by Kate Chopin are both very ironic stories, they have two different types of irony. The main theme of The Machine That Won the War is a machine, called the Multivac. Yet it is found out the machine really did not win or even help out in the war, ironically contradicting the title. The results were just being doctored by John Henderson, the main character, and his superior, Jablonsky, to make it seem the machine actually…

Throughout the novel, each robot displays that as AI increases in complexity, as do the consequences for the humans involved. Asimov created three laws of robotics - which are expressed in both the novel and the film – which are intended to keep all robots under control and beneficial to humans (45). One of the earliest robots in the novel, Speedy, is programmed to follow orders…

article titled “About Men: Male Humor,” Isaac Asimov shares what he has taken from the multiple conversations he has had with different men on the topics of women and humor. Asimov believes that most men only feel comfortable making jokes about females in the presence of other males when making jokes about females. From his own personal experience, though, Asimov has witnessed women “laugh as hard at dirty jokes as men do.” Though tThe main reason that Asimov thinks men believe that the presence…

enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?” This emphasizes some of the main problems with space colonization, and how prevalent it has been in history. This concept can be seen in the novel Nemesis by Isaac Asimov, which explores the development of colonies in space, and how different individuals react towards colonization. Within the novel it is shown that humanity is a species that constantly destroys everything in its path, including itself,…

other humans with prosthetics or wheelchairs all the time. These advances in technology are great in so countless ways, but it still begs the question, what is technology’s role in society and do we rely on it too much? In “The Bicentennial Man” by Isaac Asimov, we look at a robot who wants to become a human and his entire existence is because of technology. In “The Man That Was Used Up” by Edgar Allen Poe, we look at a man who is slowly becoming one with technology. In “The Dilemma…