Interview with Isaac Asimov by Bill Moyers – about learning, computers, religion, population growth, the universe..
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Interview with Isaac Asimov by Bill Moyers – about learning, computers, religion, population growth, the universe..
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I am not an atheist, but Isaac Asimov was an amazing man who could appeal to atheists and theists alike. This particular part of the interview, Asimov speaks so eloquently about education and how wonderful learning can be. And his prediction about the modern day Internet is positively amazing.
Isaac Asimov will live forever as long as we remember him and his books.
Quite a visionary. I’m not exactly a fan of Asimov’s fiction (except for some of his short stories) but I love his science and history books. All my heroes are dead, god damn it :/
when did this interview take place?
I am so blown away by this interview right now.
He is Harry Seldon and he knows it all!
He’s talking more specifically than just the internet, he’s predicting the popularity of Wikipedia! With knowledge so easy to access, the desire to learn increases with that availability…
lol if only he could have wrapped his brain over how we are watching this on youtube…with his talk on computers
@eternalpeen I’m reading htem right now, they’re amazing. I just kinda recently heard of this guy too.
@mchenrinson you are so right.
If only he’d lived to see Wikipedia…
RIP robot overlord Asimov.
Yeah, I mean look at some of the things you believe without questioning. HFCS ‘dangers’, climate change blind faith, you probably think GMO’s are bad too.
He had a free mind & was able to see what those with closed minds would not want to see.
This was supposed to be an age of information, but there’s still a lot of disinformation. 9/11 con theories, creation science, mercury in HFCS, anti vaccination movement, homeopathy, climate change denial, etc.
this guy knew the future, 100% on, not off at all, and explained it so easy, more than anyone else could. Its really mindblowing
Ok so he didn’t know anything about the spiritual side of existance, but I guess they were not as advanced in quantum physics back then as they are now, proving that the so called phoney knowledge is actually scientific fact. Besides that he seems like an intelligent guy. I wonder if he knew there would be so much porn on the net?
this guy is ridiculous… i can’t believe i haven’t heard much more from him sooner. i absolutely cannot wait to read the foundation books
INTERNET, GOOGLE, WIKIPEDIA, YOUTUBE… He just saw it all. What a bright mind.
I’m speechless. What an amazing far-reaching mind.
The guy conceived the internet for crying out loud. Almost exactly right about it.
I think I’ve read at least half of his books. Definitely want to read all of them before I die!
amazing
He was wrong about the dangers of the excessive dependency, use and abuse of computers. How could he know about the inherent dangers of the Internet. Unlike Philip K. Dick he was not aware of the very real danger of the development of a nightmarish Dystopic world, with its Unethical and corrupt governance controlled by criminals! Even so, I was honored to have met him in person and to have had an almost hour-long one-on-one discussion.
He concieved wikipedia
cool. thanks. How did you know that?
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