Isaac Asimov (Isaak Ozimov Yudovich, in Russian: Исаак Юдович Озимов; Petrovichi, c. January 2, 1920 - New York, April 6, 1992) was an American author and biochemist, born in Russia, author of fiction scientific and popular science.The most famous work of Asimov's Foundation series, also known as the Foundation Trilogy, part of the Galactic Empire series and soon combined with his other great series of Robots.Asimov was recognized as a master of the science fiction genre and, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke has been considered in life as one of the "Big Three" of science fiction writers.In 1981, an asteroid named in his honor, the 5020 Asimov. The humanoid robot "ASIMO" Honda's can also be considered an indirect homage to Asimov, because the name means the robot, Advanced Step in Innovative Mobility, and also mean, in Japanese, "legs also" (ashi mo) a pun on language regarding the ownership of this innovative drive robot.Asimov intended to write 500 books, and some did not reach that mark, he wrote 463 works. But adding up all books, drawings and edited collections, amounted to 509 items in his complete bibliography. Asimov may have written Opus 400, which would be a celebration of 400 publications, however, the list of commemorative bibliography extends only to the Opus 300.
Asimov and Google
In the book The Origin of Emotions, Asimov talks about future problems that could lead to the extinction of humanity and how the technology could save her. On one part of the book, he talks about education and how it could work in the future. Cquote1.svg There will be a tendency to centralize information so that a request for certain items can take advantage of the resources of all libraries in a region or a nation and maybe the world. Finally, there will be the equivalent of a Computed Global Library, in which all human knowledge is stored and where any item of this total may be removed by request. Cquote2.svg Cquote1.svg ... Certainly, more people would follow this easy and natural way to satisfy their curiosities and needs to know. And each person as they were educated in their own interests, could then begin to make their contributions. One who had a new thought or observation of any kind on any field, it could present it, and if it was not on the library would be kept waiting for confirmation, and possibly end up being built. Each person would be both a teacher and a learner.Laws of Robotics Presented in the book I, Robot, the three Laws of Robotics were created as a condition of coexistence of robots with humans, to prevent any danger that artificial intelligence could pose to humanity. They are:
1st law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2nd law: A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law
3rd Law: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First and Second Laws.Later in the book The Robots of Dawn, the robot Daneel would establish a fourth law: "Act Zero":
'Law Zero: A robot may not injure humanity, nor, through inaction, allow it to come to harm.
