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Asimov on the future of mankind

08.30.2008 at 10:18 by alexziller

Enjoy the speech (especially the final part) of one of the most visionary mind of the past century about problems which we wrongly consider as belonging to the past (cold war, self-distruction, etc..).  Ladies and gentlemen: Isaac Asimov !

I think this video, particularly the final part, very well fits the spirit of Tecnopolis. It is curious that Asimov, the father of robotics and an advocate of technocracy, has been wrongly perceived as representative of cold “iperrationalism”, while as you can see he was endorsing “humanism” and he was himself “humanist” like true technocrats are.

Take one of his most famous sentence (I put it on my master thesis and I am going to do it again for the phd..)

“I do not fear computer, I fear the lack of them”"

You may be surprised or disagree, but I think, this sentence has a profound sense of humanity.

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