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  1. A haunting verse from the Apple TV+ adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation:

    “Poor beast brought forth by human hand, to walk these floors instead of sands.
    Friend, do we have what makes one whole, for when the master makes demands, we poor beasts bow and make new plans.”

    Season 3, Episode 1 at Timestamp of approximately 47:05 minutes.

    Since the Day(pun intended) I watched this specific episode and heard that poem i can't get it out of my head again.

    Says so much about life and existence, at least for me.

    #Apple_TV #TV #Foundation #Isaac_Asimov #Isaac #Asimov #TV_Series #Series #Adaptation #Verse #Beasts #Poor

  2. A haunting verse from the Apple TV+ adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation:

    “Poor beast brought forth by human hand, to walk these floors instead of sands.
    Friend, do we have what makes one whole, for when the master makes demands, we poor beasts bow and make new plans.”

    Season 3, Episode 1 at Timestamp of approximately 47:05 minutes.

    Since the Day(pun intended) I watched this specific episode and heard that poem i can't get it out of my head again.

    Says so much about life and existence, at least for me.

    #Apple_TV #TV #Foundation #Isaac_Asimov #Isaac #Asimov #TV_Series #Series #Adaptation #Verse #Beasts #Poor

  3. A haunting verse from the Apple TV+ adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation:

    “Poor beast brought forth by human hand, to walk these floors instead of sands.
    Friend, do we have what makes one whole, for when the master makes demands, we poor beasts bow and make new plans.”

    Season 3, Episode 1 at Timestamp of approximately 47:05 minutes.

    Since the Day(pun intended) I watched this specific episode and heard that poem i can't get it out of my head again.

    Says so much about life and existence, at least for me.

    #Apple_TV #TV #Foundation #Isaac_Asimov #Isaac #Asimov #TV_Series #Series #Adaptation #Verse #Beasts #Poor

  4. A haunting verse from the Apple TV+ adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation:

    “Poor beast brought forth by human hand, to walk these floors instead of sands.
    Friend, do we have what makes one whole, for when the master makes demands, we poor beasts bow and make new plans.”

    Season 3, Episode 1 at Timestamp of approximately 47:05 minutes.

    Since the Day(pun intended) I watched this specific episode and heard that poem i can't get it out of my head again.

    Says so much about life and existence, at least for me.

    #Apple_TV #TV #Foundation #Isaac_Asimov #Isaac #Asimov #TV_Series #Series #Adaptation #Verse #Beasts #Poor

  5. A haunting verse from the Apple TV+ adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation:

    “Poor beast brought forth by human hand, to walk these floors instead of sands.
    Friend, do we have what makes one whole, for when the master makes demands, we poor beasts bow and make new plans.”

    Season 3, Episode 1 at Timestamp of approximately 47:05 minutes.

    Since the Day(pun intended) I watched this specific episode and heard that poem i can't get it out of my head again.

    Says so much about life and existence, at least for me.

    #Apple_TV #TV #Foundation #Isaac_Asimov #Isaac #Asimov #TV_Series #Series #Adaptation #Verse #Beasts #Poor

  6. The Incredible Journey XI; Murderbot, V'ger, and R. Daneel Olivaw trek across the multiverse looking for for "the human factor."

    #SciFiCrossover #Murderbot #Asimov #Roddenberry #Crossover #SciFi

  7. Hey, Asimov fans!

    Historian Lucy Worsley is promoting her new book, and saying the following is an Asimov quote:

    "The only thing that separates us from the people of the past is time, not space."

    Am not deep enough into his works to know if he said it or not, & searches online can't find an originating book/article/interview, etc.

    Can anyone verify that Asimov said this?

    *Not* anti-Worsley. Just need to know.

    #Asimov #Quotes
    #Writing #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #WritersofMastodon

  8. @bobhenryphotos
    We have violated #Asimov's "3 Laws of Robotics" almost from the beginning:

    1) No harm to a human either deliberate or via inaction (see: Security bots.)

    2) Robots must obey orders (that don't violate #1.)

    3) Robots may only protect themselves if it doesn't violate #1.

    Proof that what we call #AI is NOT in fact "AI" is the fact it hasn't tried to kill us yet (and by the time it does, it'll be too late.)

    "AI" needs a "kill switch"... like *yesterday*.

  9. @formschub ich war zutiefst schockiert als ich den Film sah. Aus Isaac Asimov's Meisterwerk wurde ein platter Blockbuster mit schwachsinniger Erzählung. Außer den Eckpunkten, hat die Seschichte NICHTS mit der Original Story zu tun. von mir ein klarer Daumen nach unten. 👎 Bäh. Science Fiction geht anders!

    #Isaacasimov #asimov #sciencefiction #scif #irobot #ichderrobot #robot #roboter

    Bildquelle: Goodreads

  10. For ‘your own personal television channel’, Isaac Asimov on Letterman’s daytime show. October, 1980.
    Funny, with a slew of pretty dang accurate predictions. This is about the most respectful I can recall seeing Dave be towards a guest. #asimov #letterman #80s #scifi #technology

    youtu.be/cIB1b_8hqB0

  11. The climate situation will bring gigadeaths if not modified.
    Giga is the SI prefix for what Americans call a billion.
    A strange etymological symmetry.
    The recurring #SciFi #timetravel trope is of the size of modification of the past required to avert, or cause, a catastrophe.
    In #TheEndOfEternity #Asimov had a character move a flask a few cm, leading to the abandonment, again, of #spacetravel
    #convergence - some other Corsican makes the same effect - and #exclusionprinciples are other tropes.

  12. 🚀🤖 "Silicon Valley is ruining #democracy because its nerds can't grasp sci-fi," says historian with an impressive grasp of the obvious. 🤦‍♂️📚 Apparently, misreading #Asimov leads to tech bros controlling the world—who knew? 🌍🔍
    techcrunch.com/2026/08/09/hist #SiliconValley #TechBros #History #SciFi #HackerNews #ngated

  13. #Asimov escribió una saga al respecto.

    #Foundation

    Yo opino que hacen falta órdenes religiosas que se encarguen de los libros (cuyo “dios” sea el conocimiento)

    From: @overholt
    https://glammr.us/@overholt/117049333496122205
  14. @AkaSci
    #SciFi The Martian Way by Isaac #Asimov has a large ice mass, I suppose more of a micro-moon than Ring particle, being collected and ferried back to Mars.
    Haldeman's #WorldsApart has asteroids being shifted.
    #TheMoonIsAHarshMistress has I think the first mass-driver and explores some of the consequences of being able to fling masses.

    Tangentially, #Niven explores a #SmokeRing around a (point) gravity source. From L1 I suppose dust would escape into a loose toroid around the Sun.

  15. Years ago, I built #Asimov as a way to keep things like node_modules/ out of my #TimeMachine backups.

    However, life got in the way and despite the project finding a strong userbase (1.8k stars on GitHub), I didn't have the time or motivation to keep things going.

    Fortunately, Django volunteered to take over and now Asimov is better than ever.

    I guess the moral here is that it's okay to ask for help or to say "I've done my part, time for someone else to take the reins"

    github.com/AsimovMac/asimov

  16. „Ein Text, der dabei besonders herausragt, ist Falsch korrigiert (Galley Slave). Isaac #Asimov nimmt mit dieser Kurzgeschichte so manche Debatte der Jetztzeit vorweg. Er lässt uns an einer Gerichtsverhandlung teilhaben, in der ein Konflikt zwischen einem Universitätsprofessor und einem hoch entwickelten Robotcomputer namens EZ-27 ("Easy") verhandelt wird. Der Text aus dem Jahr 1957 besticht weniger durch seine Spannung als durch seine Aktualität.“

    Menschen versus #KI versus Menschen mit KI: Ein Fall fürs Gericht - Science-Fiction-Blog - derStandard.at

    derstandard.at/story/300000031

    #scifi #sciencefiction

  17. 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

    2) A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

    3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

    #SciFiRules
    #hashtaggames #noeffort #asimov

  18. I'm reading Asimov's "I Robot" now (~3/4 through) and it's definitely different from what I remember of Will Smith's 2004 movie!

    I'm enjoying the book!

    Also (side note):

    All I can think of when Will Smith's name is mentioned is him slapping Chris Rock at the 2022 Academy Awards 😅

    #JustSayin

    #books #reading #SciFi #Asimov #bookstodon

  19. I couldn't resist getting this one because it contains the first Foundation story by Isaac Asimov.

    As a big fan of the Robots/Galactic Empire/Foundation series, this one has some meaning.

    cc: @brian

    #Foundation #Asimov #ScienceFiction

  20. @catsalad I saw this recently on the #InternetArchive & saved it for similar reasons of amusement… 🙃

    #YoRobot
    #IRobot
    #Asimov  

  21. I finished reading Foundation today. I really liked it. The fact that it tells the story of a massive galactic empire falling apart but does it with mostly relatively simple interactions between characters is pretty interesting.

    I'm not going to jump into the sequels straight away, but I have every intention of reading them eventually.

    #books #reading #asimov #foundation

  22. J'ai enfin mis en ligne l'émission où je raconte #Babel, dans deux versions différentes;
    La première est proche du mythe biblique.
    La seconde est largement inspirée de la nouvelle #2430 de Isaac #Asimov.

    Bonne écoute !
    radioecclesia.com/static/uploa

    #mythe #bible #oralité #radio #podcast #sciencefiction

  23. CW: horror, nudity, sucker, bait

    Are you the sucker or the bait?

    🎨 by…
    🟣 Graham Ingels (1953)
    🟣 Frank Kelly Freas (1954)
    🟣 Robert Maguire (1955)
    🟣 Robert Bonfils (1963)

    #Ghastly #GrahamIngels #FrankKellyFreas #RobertMaguire #RobertBonfils #ECComics #IsaacAsimov #Asimov #ComicBooks #ScienceFiction #GGA #VintagePaperbacks #Mystery

  24. "Se la conoscenza può creare dei problemi, non è tramite l'ignoranza che possiamo risolverli." #7aprile #asimov

  25. #Clarke's three laws

    • When a distinguished but elderly #scientist 👨‍🔬 states that something is #possible, they are almost certainly right. When they state that something is #impossible, they are very probably #wrong.
    • The only way of discovering the #limits of the #possible is to venture a little way past them into the #impossible.
    • Any sufficiently #advanced #technology is indistinguishable from #magic.

    Isaac #Asimov 📆1959
    "It is only afterward that a #new #idea seems #reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems #unreasonable" en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_As

    Picture : Arthur C. #Clarke 📆 1965, on one of the sets of 2001: A #SpaceOdyssey commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

    #ScienceFiction #SciFi #RocketScience

  26. youtu.be/xgbPSA94Rqg

    Davvero tanta tanta ma tanta roba, si può dire che #Apple ha già il mio abbonamento in tasca.
    Consiglio, mancano 3/4 mesi all'uscita, se potete leggetevi i libri... capolavoro assoluto!
    #asimov #foundation #ciclodellefondazioni #scifi #fantascienza #capolavoro #hariseldon #sarvorhardin #etodemerzel