South Korean robotics task force turns to Isaac Asimov for ethics of robots.
Read this amazing article at the Guardian about the influence of his Foundation trilogy on Aum Shinrikyo and Al-Qaeda.
One can't blame Asimov for fuelling the swollen fantasies of the murderous. It is the last thing this committed pacifist ("violence is the last refuge of the incompetent") would have wanted.
In case you missed this link from the rowboat post: I, Rowboat. You had to have read the book, or maybe seen the movie.
I did both. I also wrote to the author with a couple of friends when I was a kid -- I think we sent him some cookies, and got a postcard in return. He was a great favorite.
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