Look How Many Of Isaac Asimov's Predictions About Robots Are Coming True

Asimov Knew

Look How Many Of Isaac Asimov's Predictions About Robots Are Coming True

ScreenShot | BusinessInsider

Dylan Love | Business Insider

One of the most important people in the world of robotics isn't a conventional roboticist at all, but the science fiction author Isaac Asimov.

It was the 1930s, and the popular perception of robots (if and when they became real) was that they were more monster than assistant. It was a perception that Asimov would unwittingly change forever.

Asimov's imagination was completely captured by robots. He began writing and publishing speculative fiction in the late 1930s in which robots featured prominently. The short version of the story is that he simply never stopped after that, writing up a storm until ...

Read Asimov's predictions at Business Insider