“Once we have computer outlets in every home, each of them hooked up to enormous libraries, where you can ask any question and be given answers, you can look up something you’re interested in knowing, however silly it might seem to someone else,” he said. “Today, what people call learning is forced on you. Everyone is forced to learn the same thing on the same day at the same speed in class. But everyone is different. For some, class goes too fast, for some too slow, for some in the wrong direction. But give everyone a chance, in addition to school, to follow up their own bent from the start, to find out about whatever they’re interested in by looking it up in their own homes, at their own speed, in their own time, and everyone will enjoy learning.”
Additional Interviews With Isaac Asimov
Asimov discussed the laws of robotics and the future of robots in a 1965 interview with the BBC program Horizon. “In short,” he said, “we may have a society in which robots will drift away from total metal toward the organic. And human beings will drift away from the total organic toward metal and plastic. And that somewhere in the middle, they may eventually meet.”
Asimov spoke about why science fiction is interesting, why it is relevant in modern society, and how he manages to make it plausible in a 1982 interview with Simon Bourgin.
Asimov talked about the art of writing science fiction in a 1987 interview with Don Swaim of CBS Radio.
To learn more about Isaac Asimov, read his profile on findingDulcinea.
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