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This reminds of Asimov's awful "The Feeling of Power" where in the future mankind has forgotten how to do basic math and someone has rediscovered it to the asto
by preommr 3y ago
This reminds of Asimov's awful "The Feeling of Power" where in the future mankind has forgotten how to do basic math and someone has rediscovered it to the astonishment of the people in power who now intend to use it to their advantage in war.
I hate that short story because of how silly it is. I get the point that it's trying to make, but it's packaged in such an absurdly unrealistic way that it loses all impact.
- vonjuice 3y agoI always considered Asimov to have good ideas but he's a pretty bad writer, specially of female characters.
- CyberDildonics 3y agospecially I think you mean 'especially'.
- vonjuice 3y agoNo.
- CyberDildonics 3y agoIt's either especially or it doesn't make sense
- flenserboy 3y agoPerhaps "human" would be a better substitution. There's a reason his robots are far more memorable than the other characters he crafted.
- vonjuice 3y agoYeah but it's more grating on the stories I read with female protagonists.
- jodrellblank 3y agoThis reminds of Asimov's story where in the future mankind has forgotten how food tastes, and are having a computer-designed-flavours competition, and someone has rediscovered growing plants in soil makes delicious garlic to the astonishment of the judges, who are later horrified and disgusted when they learn the truth about what he fed them. https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/209233/short-story-by-isaac-asimov-about-a-mental-chef https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/209233/short-story...
- klooney 3y agoHey, I think about that story all the time too, I'm glad I'm not the only one it's haunting.