Defending Asimov: robopsychology and differential tech development still hold up
jankulveit · x · 2026-09-03
Responding to criticism that Asimov's prose and psychohistory don't hold up, jankulveit argues Asimov is an outlier: stories like Jokester, Reason, The Last Question and Bicentennial Man each carry distinct ideas, The Dead Past is great for thinking about differential technological development, and his robopsychology was ahead of its time.
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