Isaac asimov

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Brief summary
of his life
He was born In petrovichi vllage russia

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Isaac Asimov, (born January 2, 1920, Petrovichi, Russia—died April 6, 1992,
New York, New York, U.S.), American author and biochemist, a highly
successful and prolific writer of science fiction and of science books for the
layperson. He wrote or edited about 500 volumes, of which the most famous
are those in the Foundation and robot series.

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Early 2
stages in
his life
Asimov was brought to the United States at age three. He grew up in
Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Columbia University in 1939.
During World War II, he worked at the Naval Aviation Experimental
Station in Philadelphia along with science-fiction authors
Robert Heinlein and L. Sprague de Camp. After the war, he took a Ph.D.
in chemistry from Columbia in 1948. He then joined the faculty of
Boston University, with which he remained associated thereafter.

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Asimov begins his contribution to science
ficton stories
▪ Asimov began contributing stories to science-fiction magazines
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in 1939. He sold his first story, “Marooned off Vesta” to Amazing
Stories, but he was most closely associated with Astounding
Science-Fiction and its editor, John W. Campbell, Jr., who became
a mentor to Asimov. “Nightfall” (1941), about a planet in a
multiple-star system that only experiences darkness for one
night every 2,049 years, brought him to the front rank of science-
fiction writers and is regarded as one of the genre’s greatest short
stories.

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Isaac asimov’s
7 predictions
for the future
1. This prediction is broad, so there was a wider net
in which to get some of it correct. It is obvious that
computerisation would continue to improve, even in
the 1980s, and rather inevitable that it would enter
our lives and homes, so it would be almost
impossible to live without using technology, or
seeing it used everywhere we go.
People are already living in ‘smart’ homes, with
assistants (‘mobile computerised object’ or ‘robot’)
like Alexa and Echo, to make our everyday activities
easier and more dependent on tech and gadgets.
2. This is on point. Technology has
forever disrupted the work
environment, and there is always
employment in the IT industry, which is
huge and more commonplace than we
realise. Asimov also correctly believed
that ‘routine clerical and assembly-line
jobs’ would be eliminated by robotics.

3. Asimov predicted that education
would be forever changed by
technology, and it would be a
fundamental part of teaching and
learning. However, he did also think
that schooling in a traditional
environment would become obsolete,
and kids would undertake education
at home on a computer. This is still a
possibility for the future of all learning,
but not now. We can learn at our own
pace and receive qualifications using
online institutions such as Open
University, but this isn’t commonplace .
4. Although the rest of his space
predictions were ridiculously far-
fetched (you’ll see), this one is –
technically – correct. We’ve had a
presence in space for the past 18
years, at the International Space
Station.
5. Asimov is not that wrong.
Celebrity engineering entrepreneur
Elon Musk is making waves in the
topic of space travel and settlement
– he wants to send humans to Mars,
and he’s hoping we could get there
as early as 2024. But we haven’t
started settling on the Moon just yet.
I’m not sure that’s even on the cards
for us.

6. Asimov’s optimism knows no bounds, especially when it
comes to space mining. This probably won’t happen for a good
while, and there don’t seem to be any concepts floating about.
Space programmes need better funding: high costs of space
flight, unreliable identification of suitable asteroids and ore
extraction are the problems to overcome. For now, terrestrial
mining is the only way we can get our raw minerals. And those
resources are running dry.
Nasa wants to send astronauts back to the Moon in about a
decade, but it’ll take a while for us to set up homes there.
By 2023, SpaceX is expected to send Japanese billionaire
Yukazu Maezawa and up to eight artists on an around-the-
Moon trip using its Starship. The company is running ‘hop tests’
for the Starship (which will eventually be ‘Mars bound’) in 2019,
to see if it can jump a few hundred kilometres.
7. Imagine that – a bit farfetched, but entirely plausible.
Back in 2011, Popular Science published an article that
said beaming power would be safe and simple –
satellites with solar panels would gather the Sun’s
energy 24-hours a day and then convert that energy into
an infrared laser beam. The high-efficiency laser would
transmit 80 per cent of the captured energy to ground-
based receivers.
Talking to the BBC, Ralph Nansen from US-based
advocacy group Solar High believes space-based solar
power will become the ultimate energy source for the
world and will replace almost everything. He reckons
there are no doubts that, within the next 100 years,
Earth will get most of its power from space.
The robot laws
In 1940 Asimov began writing
his robot stories (later collected
in I, Robot [1950]). In the 21st
century, “positronic” robots
operate according to the Three
Laws of Robotics:
 The laws of robotics:
a robot must protect
its own existence as
03 long as such
protection does not
conflict with the
First or Second
A robot may not Laws.
injure a
human being, or,
01 02
through inaction,
a robot must obey the orders
allow a human given it by human beings
being to come to except where such orders
harm; would conflict with the First
Law;

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 Timeline of isaac asimov

Graduated from Columbia

Isaac Asimov was born university Robot stories “Foundation” Seecond foundation

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Moved to the United Contribuiton to science “The encyclopedists” Foundation and Empire Isaac Asimov died
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Team Presentation by

Mateo Mitevski
Mihail Petrushevski
Josip Milkovski
Andrej Arsovski
Dragan Petrushevski

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