Essays Tagged: "Asimov"
Will Computers Control Humans In The Future?
ture, however, might havenegative results and impact on our lives. In the novel Nine TomorrowsIsaac Asimov often criticizes our reliance on computers by portraying afuturistic world where computers co ... on computers by portraying afuturistic world where computers control humans.One of the images which Asimov describes in the book is that humansmight become too dependent on computers. In one of the st ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
Asimov on Chemistry
Asimovon chemistryThe Book Asimov on Chemistry by Isaac Asimov is a collection ofseventeen essays th ... y,Inc. Not all of the books centered on chemistry and like science. Most justcovered anything Isaac Asimov wondered about. These Essays date back quiteaways with a range from January 1959 to April 196 ... make some discoveries about inflammable gas and proved water to be anoxide.The Element of PerfectionAsimov talks about astronomers in the mid 1800's, and how they madethe spectroscope. Only then does ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Chemistry
Proving the Exstance and current theorums of the "black hole"
had enough power nothing could escape its grasp, even light? What is this, you ask. A black hole. (Asimov, 1-196)What is a black hole? A black hole is an old star that has run out of fuel. The pressu ... be bigger than a medium sized star otherwise it would just burn out and become a black dwarf star. (Asimov, 1-196)Now that the black hole has crushed itself, what does it do? Well, a black hole (to be ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science
Fantasy and fiction
re legal. Montag beings to salvage and hide books, but must run for his crime is discovered.Many of Asimov's works deal in the area of social science fiction. The effect of technology and science is a ... The effect of technology and science is an important theme in many of his short stories and novels. Asimov also presents the problems of present day society to us by paralleling these problems in a fu ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
This essay is on "Rolls for the Czar," by R. Kinkead, and "What is intelligence, Anyway?" by Isaac Asimov. We were asked to write an essay comparing and contrasting these two articles.
ce, Anyway?"In "Rolls for the Czar," by R. Kinkead, and in "What is Intelligence, Anyway?" by Isaac Asimov, intelligence assumes different forms. The two types of intelligence referred to are book sma ... wit. In the first story, Markov the baker demonstrates quick wit, while in the second story, Isaac Asimov ironically does not.In "Rolls for the Czar," Markov the baker, who we assume to be a simpleto ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
"The Eureka Phenomenon" by Isaac Asimov
In Isaac Asimov's "The Eureka Phenomenon", he explains that when relaxed, a person's mind can solve a problem ... gh the town naked? Those are questions that appeared in my mind after reading this story. Was Isaac Asimov experimenting on us, the reader? Yes he was. Asimov's whole conclusion of the story is that i ... ading the bits of comedy in these stories, the reader will become in a relaxed state of mind and if Asimov's hypothesis is correct, it will result in a better understanding of the story and the lesson ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors
Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov was a very outstanding and prolific writer in science fiction, writing over 300 books. His id ... ness as an author, and his book Foundation, including: His time period, religion, and history.Isaac Asimov was born in 1920 in the USSR to a Jewish family. When he was three years old his family moved ... y for a year. In 1948 he earned a PhD. Later he became an assistant professor at Boston University. Asimov was married twice and had two children in the first marriage. Although his family was Jewish, ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Who Put The Science In Science Fiction: An Exploration Of Asimov’s Worlds And Times
probably as a science fiction writer that I am best known. (The Rest of the Robots 1) The staple of Asimov's works is the all-human universe, where robotics is an established science and Earth seems a ... science fiction consisted mainly of meetings with fantastic, and sometimes monstrous, alien beings, Asimov built the majority of his works on a foundation of humanity and machines. This distinctive st ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
What is Human?
The Three Laws of Robotics as told by the author Isaac Asimov in his popular science fiction novel "I, Robot".A robot may not injure a human being or, thro ... otect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. (Asimov 37The three laws which all robots must obey are the metaphorical pillars in which the very no ... and blood, emotion and expression?As a highly prolific and successful science fiction author, Isaac Asimov was considered by many to be among the top three science fiction writers of his era (along wi ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
Predictability and the Inability of the Human Race to Change
In Isaac Asimov's Foundation, Asimov displays the world as predictable and constant. The basis of the story i ... ience called psycho history, which uses statistical facts from the past to predict the future. Also Asimov tells about how history repeats itself. In order to show how history repeats itself, Asimov p ... the historic situation of the fall of Rome with the fall of a future galactic empire" (Gunn, "Isaac Asimov: Overview" 2). In Isaac Asimov's novel, Foundation, he displays how the human race as a whole ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Computer Technology in Society
e, however, might have negative results and impact on our lives. In the novel Nine Tomorrows, Isaac Asimov often criticizes our reliance on computers by portraying a futuristic world where computers c ... computers by portraying a futuristic world where computers control humans. One of the images which Asimov describes in the book is that humans might become too dependent on computers. So, people may ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: The Monster and the Myth
ution.In Shelley's novel, Frankenstein's creation was entirely innocent from the very beginning. As Asimov indicates: "Brought to life through Frankenstein's action, the Monster was cruelly abandoned ... the surname of the scientist. One more time the reader must consider: who is the monster?Works CitedAsimov, Isaac. "The Lord's Apprentice." The Ultimate Frankenstein. Ed. DavidKellar, Megan Miller, Jo ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Universal Truths: "If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them." Isaac Asimov
otes: "If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them", Isaac Asimov shows his perception for knowledge and ignorance as well as to what they lead. Based on his t ... ctive expectations and desires. Knowledge is the Reality, but, still, it may develop. .According to Asimov, the more we know, the more we understand that what we still don't know is more than what we ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy