Ep 103 - Foundation, by Isaac Asimov

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Craig Getting, Arts, Books, Podcasts, Literature, Comedy, Andrew Cunningham

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🗓️ 9 March 2015

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Celebrated science fiction author Isaac Asimov wrote a lot in the 20th century: short stories, screenplays, books on pop science, books on hard science, essays on Shakespeare, essays on history and physics -- name a medium, he dabbled in it.

But among all of Asimov's bibliography, the Foundation stands apart. This trilogy (later a quintet and then a septet) examined hard sci-fi issues like societal evolution and the collapse of civilizations on a galactic scale. And it all began with the stories Asimov originally collected as Foundation.

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0:00.0	While Andrew and Craig believe the joy of discovery is crucial to enjoying any well-told tale,
0:05.1	they will not shy away from spoiling specific story beats when necessary.
0:10.4	Plus, these are books you should have read by now.
0:30.4	Andrew, what do you think about robots?
0:39.1	What do I think about robots?
0:40.7	Yeah, like how do you feel about your tech guy, your end of the tech and the watches?
0:45.7	How do you feel about robots?
0:49.4	As long as we are in control of them, I feel fine about them. I know you'd
0:55.0	get freaked out about robots killing everybody. I don't get freaked out. I kind of get
0:59.2	morbidly fascinated by it. I don't know.
1:01.7	Okay.
1:02.7	Okay. Those weird, Google military dog robots that you kick and they won't fall down,
1:08.8	don't like them.
1:09.6	Oh, those ones that look like.
1:11.0	That can't even valley thing is too much.
1:12.8	Are they dogs or have you seen the one that's the size of a horse that can roll down a hill
1:18.5	and write itself?
1:20.0	I don't like that either.
1:21.4	I don't like...
1:23.7	That's the line. I guess that's the line for me and robots because I need to be able to kick
1:27.1	them over to feel comfortable with them.
1:32.8	Yeah, it can know anything it wants about me. It can sound like a human. It can act like a human,
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