The point remains, it was a more optimistic time. It was only three years after the first people had been launched into space, and it seemed that the sky was no

The point remains, it was a more optimistic time. It was only three years after the first people had been launched into space, and it seemed that the sky was no longer the limit. Asimov had no way of knowing that so much of our potential would be wasted on killing each other instead of on building the future he envisioned.