Scientific discoveries have been making leaps and bounds at every increasing rates but unfortunately mankind hasn’t been as ...

In 1980, Isaac Asimov published a negative review of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four in the New Yorker. His central complaint was that Orwell didn't understand technology. The telescreens that ...

As you may guess from his work, SpaceX and Tesla Motors mogul Elon Musk is a big science fiction fan. He especially cites Issac Asimov's 1951 novel "Foundation" and its sequels as a huge inspiration ...

Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics may be intentionally flawed, but they teach us important lessons about agentic artificial ...

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In 1956, Isaac Asimov wrote a short story in a single sitting that begins in 2061, with two drunk engineers asking a ...

Like many websites, Last.fm's web server contains a file called robots.txt, whose job it is to instruct the robotic web spiders employed by search engines like Google to ignore certain directories on ...

In 1964, the famed writer shared his vision of our time. Some predictions were spot-on, while others were wildly off base. Crave's Eric Mack thinks he knows why. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor ...

Sean Connery had to deal with a killer meteor in this forgotten sci-fi bomb inspired by an idea from legendary author Isaac ...

Isaac Asimov was the steak-and-buffet restaurant of American authors: What he lacked in quality, he made up for in volume. If you didn’t like what he was serving, you could wait a few minutes for him ...

One day when I was 12 I ventured into the adult section of my local public library for the first time. There, I encountered the Science Fiction Shelf. That year I began reading my way along the shelf, ...

The science fiction author figured we'd have more robots in our homes and big plans to live in space by now. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family live 100% energy and ...