The Robots of Dawn
by Isaac Asimov · first published 1983
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A millennium into the future two advances have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain. Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York City detective and a humanoid robot who must learn to work together. Detective Elijah Baley is called to the Spacer world Aurora to solve a bizarre case of roboticide. The prime suspect is a gifted roboticist who had the means, the motive, and the opportunity to commit the crime. There's only one catch: Baley and his positronic partner, R. Daneel Olivaw, m
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…Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" a whirl if you're interested in the implications. Isaac Asimov also spent a lot of time writing about robotic intelligence. Hit up Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun and Robots of Dawn if this floats your boat.
on “Anyone know who is behind perfect-woman.com?” ↗Isaac Asimov is a must read for people who love Sci-Fi. Some of his books I loved: The Robot Series (The Caves of Steel, The Robots of Dawn etc.), The Foundation Series, Nemesis, the list goes on ...
on “Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days?” ↗…grown up questions. Here are a few I have recently re-read: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, Saturn's Children by Charles Stross, Engines Of Light by Ken McLeod, 2001 by Arthur C. Clarke, Robots of Dawn, etc. by Isaac Asimov.
on “Adults' obsession with science fiction causing society to become infantilised” ↗…microformats, etc.) Sergey Brin just took what he was given. As an example he talks about finding author-title pairs on the Web. He starts with a seed list of, say, five author-title pairs: Isaac Asimov, The Robots of Dawn David Brin, Startide Rising James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science Charles Dickens, Great Expectations William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors and just combing the web for patterns between…
on “Don't Start Big, Start a Little Snowball” ↗