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Old 01-03-2014, 02:14 AM
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Asimov looks to 2014 from the 1964 World's Fair

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/2...si-v-fair.html
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Old 01-03-2014, 07:40 AM
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One of the better prophecies of that sort. More right than not.
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In the Foundation series he sort of makes a point about on how the First Foundation is able to control their part of the galaxy because of minaturization...i.e. smaller nuclear devices lol. I do not know if minuratization in technology was an aim or idea prevalent in the 40s when he wrote the early books of the series but I was struck by him realizing how important it would be...or maybe he was not really aware of that at the time.
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Old 01-03-2014, 09:41 AM
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Excellent, thanks! It sounds like his stories

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