Steven Spielberg approached sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov about writing the script for Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but ...

Legendary sci-fi author Isaac Asimov served as the inspiration for an extremely obscure Superman villain back in the 1980s.

Jules Verne’s 1863 book "Paris in the Twentieth Century," set in Paris in 1960, correctly predicted cars, fax machines, and ...

One example is when the legendary sci-fi author Isaac Asimov was interviewed in footage from the New York City "Star Trek" ...

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) wrote 470 books on every subject from robots to Shakespeare and an estimated 90,000 letters, hundreds of which are collected here by his brother, an adjunct associate ...

With tens of thousands of books, short stories, articles, and reviews to his credit, science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov may have been one of the most prolific creatives of the 20th century. But what ...

Isaac Asimov's Foundation and the books in the I, Robot series are directly connected. We break down some of the main ...

Asimov's 3 laws of robotics were theoretical. These new 24 laws of robots and AI are very real ... but it's unclear how ...

In a letter sent to the FBI’s director J. Edgar Hoover in 1960, a classified source used Asimov’s claim that the world’s first nuclear power plant was built in Soviet Russia as evidence of his ...

This excerpt is adapted from “Generation Robot” by Terri Favro. Published by Skyhorse Publishing, 2020. All rights reserved. The year 2020 marks a milestone in ...

Past predictions about the future oftentimes fail miserably—or at least produce a few giggles. In 1949, Popular Mechanics predicted that future computers would at least “weigh no more than 1.5 tons.” ...

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