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https://wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power https://wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power asimov and manned-missiles
by hyperpallium 8y ago
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power https://wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power asimov and manned-missiles
- btilly 8y agoGood example. Now compare with Franchise, Jokester, All the Troubles of the World, The Last Question and many more stories that feature as a plot device a very powerful centralized computer named Multivac. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivac https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivac for a more complete list.) How the same mind could have come up with the idea of androids with positron brains following the three laws of robotics, and yet missed pocket calculators baffles me.
- perl4ever 8y agoHeinlein predicted electronic calculators shortly after WWII in Space Jockey. The space ship has a little calculator, while the big computer is on a space station. That's more or less in line with late 60s or early 70s tech. I think a lot of science fiction has predicted 20 years out pretty well. It's past that that it usually goes off the rails, only because of the inherent difficulty of predicting the future.