Isaac Asimov grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., reading pulp sci-fi magazines in his father's candy store. Because the magazines had "science" in the title, he was able to convince his father that it was educational. 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 his death in 1992.
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- “…Asimov looked at them [robots] another way, more like intelligent appliances than monsters.”
- “Asimov is famous for his ‘laws of robotics,’ which prevent robots from hurting humans, or through inaction, allow humans to come to harm.”
- “Asimov's vision of robot-as-appliance became reality in 1961 when General Motors introduced Unimate, a robot that worked on factory floors, spot-welding car parts together.”
- “His military experience got him thinking of new potentials for robots. What if they could take the place of humans on the battlefield?”
