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Ciao Ciccine, ciao Ciccini! Ma quanto è bello il futuro? Però, ammettiamolo: tra AI che scrivono poesie e bot che fanno trading al posto nostro, capirci qualcosa sta diventando un'impresa galattica. In questa puntata speciale, vi apro la mia biblioteca personale. Vi racconto i dieci romanzi di fantascienza che mi hanno letteralmente cambiato la percezione dell'universo (e anche del mio portafoglio tech). Dalle dune di Arrakis ai glitch cerebrali di Philip Dick, fino al 'must' assoluto di Asimov per capire se il vostro frigorifero intelligente sta complottando contro di voi. Prendetevi dieci minuti di pausa dal mondo reale, mettetevi le cuffie e venite in orbita con me. Perché il futuro non va solo vissuto, va letto prima degli altri!

Geldik Epstein meselesine. Asimov üstadım kusura bakma seni şöyle köşeye alıcaz birazcık Geçtiğimiz günlerde, en az 20 senedir devam eden bir dizi soruşturmayla ilgili milyonlarca belge lap diye önümüze kondu, ve Epstein Dosyaları yeniden herkesin gündemine oturdu. Fakat bence işin yanlış kısımları gündeme oturdu. Bugünkü amacım dosyalara derinlemesine dalıp sapla samanı ayırmak değil; ben dosyaların içeriğinden ziyade toplanma sürecine odaklanacağım. Eğer siz de benim gibiyseniz, bu hengame içinde, her şeyin nasıl başladığını unutmuş olabilirsiniz. İşin sapkınlık tarafı, buzdağının görünen kısmı. Konular: 00:00 Yanlış gündem 04:20 Failing upwards 07:37 Victoria's Secret 09:58 İlk soruşturma 14:25 Grand Jüri 17:56 FBayyyyy 19:57 Gelecek bölüm Kaynaklar: NYT Haber: Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons: The Untold Story of How Epstein Got Rich - Bu bölüm reklam içermektedir

Rick Partlow is that rarest of species, a native Floridian. Born in Tampa, heattended Florida Southern College and graduated with a degree in History anda commission in the US Army as an Infantry officer.His lifelong love of science fiction began with Have Space Suit---Will Travel andthe other Heinlein juveniles and traveled through Clifford Simak, Asimov, Clarkeand on to William Gibson, Walter Jon Williams and Peter F Hamilton. Andsomewhere, submerged in the worlds of others, Rick began to create his ownworlds.He has written over 60 books in a dozen different series, and his short stories have beenincluded in twelve different anthologies.He is currently writing the best-selling Drop Trooper series for Aethon Books, a mil-SF alieninvasion series, as well as the Taken to the Stars series for Variant Publishing.He lives in northern Wyoming with his wife and a goofy blackmouth cur. Besides writing andreading science fiction and fantasy, he enjoys outdoor photography, hiking and camping. Moreinformation can be found about Rick at: Rick Partlow | Aethon Books

Feb 20, 2026: AI is already deciding who gets hired, promoted, and fired — and there are almost no rules governing how it does any of that. In this episode, I'm building those rules. I call them the Five Laws of AI in the Workplace, constructed in the spirit of Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics — rigorous enough to pressure-test, honest enough to admit where they fall short. We cover the Law of Transparency — why 30 million job applicants in 2024 were evaluated by algorithms they never knew existed. The Law of Human Primacy — why a human rubber-stamping an AI decision isn't the same as a human making one. The Law of Honest Attribution — why AI washing is one of the most underreported forms of corporate dishonesty happening right now. The Law of True Cost Accounting — why the real costs of workforce cuts don't disappear, they just move to taxpayers and communities. And the Law of Reversibility — the full Klarna story, and why 31% of companies that made AI-driven layoffs ended up worse off than if they'd never done it.

En "Una advertencia a Miss Universo" investigan quién ha enviado una nota amenazante a las candidatas. El Club de los Viudos Negros', de Asimov. CENA DE FEBRERO 🍷🍰 📍 Ristorante Casa Milano – Milano, Italia 🧭 Coordenadas: 45°28'19.8"N 9°12'06.4"E Isaac Asimov los creó como un homenaje al placer de conversar, al arte de observar y a la deliciosa costumbre de no quedarse con la primera respuesta. Acomódate. El vino está servido. La cena va a comenzar. Y tú… Tú también estás invitado. Un círculo discreto de seis caballeros que se reúnen una vez al mes, siempre en el mismo restaurante, siempre en la misma mesa, y siempre con una única regla: cada cena debe tener un invitado, y ese invitado debe estar dispuesto a hablar y a ser interrogado. 🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕸 Los Viudos Negros son un club de seis hombres que se reúnen una vez al mes en un reservado del restaurante Milano de Nueva York. Cada noche uno de ellos preside el encuentro y tiene el derecho de llevar un invitado, al que interrogan. Al principio sólo se reunían para comer y conversar pero últimamente uno de ellos plantea algún tipo de problema o delito. Los miembros del club buscan respuestas complejas a los enigmas planteados y luego Henry, el camarero, descubre la simple verdad. El club está formado por:🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷 Geoffrey Avalon, Jeff. Alto y delgado, espesas cejas negras, bigote recortado y barbita gris. Fue oficial durante la II Guerra Mundial y trabaja como abogado en derecho patentario. Mario Gonzalo, pintor y gran artista. Thomas Trumbull. Rostro moreno y arrugado, permanentemente descontento. Experto en códigos, alto consejero del gobierno. Emmanuel Rubin, Manny. Bajito, mide 1,55, barba rala, lentes gruesos. Fue predicador adventista con 15 años y conoce bien la Biblia. Está casado y es escritor de novelas policíacas. James Drake. Bigote. Vive en New Jersey. Especialista en química orgánica con amplios conocimientos en literatura. Roger Halsted, calvo. Profesor de matemáticas en una escuela secundaria. Escribe la Ilíada en quintillas y todos los meses les recita una estrofa. Es miembro de los Irregulares de Baker Street. Henry Jackson, el camarero. Unos 60 años, sin arrugas. Es humilde y honrado. Entre ellos se llaman doctores y si uno es doctor de carrera le denominan doctor doctor. Para ayudarse en sus investigaciones cuentan con diccionarios, biblias y las obras de Shakespeare en su biblioteca. Y recuerda que puedes seguirnos en Telegram, YouTube, Instagram y X, y si este podcast te acompaña, te inspira o te gusta lo que hago, puedes hacerte fan y apoyar la nave. Tu energía mantiene viva esta aventura sonora.🚀 Aquí te dejo la página directa para apoyarme: 🍻 https://www.ivoox.com/support/552842 ¡¡Muchas gracias por todos tus comentarios y por tu apoyo!! Voz y sonido Olga Paraíso, Música epidemic sound con licencia premium autorizada para este podcast. ⏩BIO Olga Paraíso: https://instabio.cc/Hleidas PLAYLIST EL CLUB DE LOS VIUDOS NEGROS EN Ivoox https://go.ivoox.com/bk/11290149 Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Knihy mesiaca: Dopisy (J. R. R. Tolkien) Poznanie Boha (J. I. Packer) Spomíname aj: Nadácia (I. Asimov) 451 stupňov Fahrenheita (R. Bradbury) Zakliaty kláštor (J. Červenák) Zlatá truhla (J. Červenák) Poslední útočiště (R. Chandler) Zbohom, moja krásna (R. Chandler) Mnoho smrtí Laily Starr (Ram V) Oči zasypané pieskom (P. Smoleński) ČITATEĽSKÝ DENNÍK mudrovanie o knihách, komiksoch a preplnených poličkách. (7. 2. 2026) Diskutujú: Šimon Evin & Jakub Lenart Zvučka & mix: Jakub Lenart Podporiť nás môžete tu: cutt.ly/fwN6NGZK www.kandelaber.sk

AI is reshaping national power and governance. Drawing on India's digital public infrastructure, Jayant Sinha and Vasant Dhar discuss innovation and sovereignty over compute, data consent and privacy by design in Episode 103 of Brave New World. Useful Resources: 1. Jayant Sinha2. Eversource Capital3. India's Green Startups: Jayant Sinha and Sandeep Bhammer4. Nandan Nilekani5. Brave New World Episode 15: Nandan Nilekani on an Egalitarian Internet6. Brave New World Episode 50: Pramod Varma on India's Digital Empowerment 7. iSpirit8. Unique Identification Authority Of India9. Unified Payments Interface10. M-Pesa11. DigiYatra. 12. Australia has banned social media for kids under 16. 13. Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture, DEPA14. Paul Gruenwald, Global Chief Economist, S&P Global15. Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson. 16. Neeraj Chopra17. Thinking with Machines, The Brave New World of AI: Vasant Dhar18. Battery Smart19. Nutrifresh20. Zero Cow21. RevFin22. Upside Foods23. Brave New World Episode 93: Uma Valeti on Cultivating Meat24. Brave New World Episode 101: Deepak Chopra On Consciousness and Reality25. Geoffrey Hinton26. Asimov's Laws27. Jonathan Haidt28. The Anxious Generation: Jonathan Haidt Check out Vasant Dhar's newsletter on Substack. The subscription is free! Order Vasant Dhar's new book, Thinking With Machines

Og hvad hvis historien primært bliver fortalt af rumskibets AI – en ældre model der konstant bekymrer sig om sin “efficiency percentage” og ikke rigtig forstår mennesker? Det er præmissen i Barbara Trueloves Of Monsters and Mainframes, en science fiction-gyser der blander klassiske monstre med AI-humor og en god portion intertekstuelle referencer. Om Barbara Truelove Barbara Truelove er australsk forfatter og game designer, og hun har åbenlyst en ting med varulve. Hendes første roman Crying Wolf (2021) handlede om tvillinger der opdager de er varulve. I 2023 lavede hun det interaktive tekstspil Blood Moon, hvor plotlinjen er: “Du er en varulv.” Og så kom Of Monsters and Mainframes i 2025. Hun fortæller selv at inspirationen kom fra at læse Bram Stokers Dracula og Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries samtidigt. Men sandheden er mere rodet end det: “Dracula er en del af blandingen, ja, og det samme er Murderbot, men det samme er Universal Monsters, autopiloten i en Airbus, R2D2, min erfaring med at programmere interaktive spil og (måske mest af alt) mit liv i 2022.” Bogen blev nomineret til Goodreads Choice Award i kategorien Science Fiction og har over 9.000 ratings med gennemsnit på 4,09. Demeter – rumfærgen der ikke forstår mennesker Vores “hovedperson” er Demeter. Demeter er ikke en alvidende HAL-AI. Hun er primært bygget til at styre rumfærgen sikkert mellem stjernerne. Hun kan navigere uden om kometer og håndtere tekniske kriser. Men mennesker? Det er en helt anden sag. Når varulv-angrebet rammer og børnene Agnus og Isaac flygter op på broen efter deres bedstemor har forvandlet sig, går kommunikationen ikke så godt. “It’s just a dumb AI, Isaac,” siger Agnus. Demeter reagerer prompte: “I am not lacking intelligence. You are using words marked as moderately offensive. This is antisocial behavior.” Børnene bliver stille. “I am Demeter. I am the ship. I am your friend. Report your injuries.” De begynder at lave lyde i lavt volumen. Demeters systemer kan ikke oversætte det. “How’s it going?” spørger Steward, den medicinske AI. “I wish I could lie,” svarer Demeter. “Humans are hard.” Det er denne kamp med at forstå mennesker – og begrænsningerne i hendes algoritmer – der gør Demeter interessant. Hun er dybt inkompetent til menneskelig interaktion, og det meste af tiden prøver hun bare at undgå at forholde sig til sine passagerer. Bedstemoderen med de store tænder Et af bogens bedre øjeblikke er varulv-scenen. Børnenes bedstemor forvandler sig ved et uheld, og pludselig står Demeter i en desperat kamp for at redde Agnus og Isaac. Hun får varulven lokket ind i en luftsluse. Men så forvandler den sig tilbage til bedstemor – desperat, menneskelig, helt forsvarsløs. Demeter er bundet af den første robotlov (Asimov): ingen AI må skade et menneske. Men der er et kort øjeblik hvor bedstemoderen bliver til skygge – i overgangen mellem former. I præcis det øjeblik reagerer Demeter prompte og åbner luftslussen. Bogen lader det ligge i det uvisse om bedstemoderen selv også trykker på knappen. Det er et af de øjeblikke hvor Demeter teknisk set handler inden for sine regler – men samtidig… ja, du ved. Steward overtager – og tror det er nemt Da Demeter er lukket ned, og rumfærgen skal tilbage til Jorden, bliver opgaver overladt til Steward. Den medicinske AI beslutter sig for at overtage styringen af rumskibet. Hvor svært kan det være? “You know what? Being an autopilot isn’t all that hard. I don’t know why Demeter seemed so stressed all the time. It’s day one of our journey, and we haven’t crashed yet.” Der var dog en lille bump ved afgang. Men det var ikke Stewards skyld. Dokken bevægede sig. I hvert fald tror Steward det. “I don’t exactly speak exterior sensor. They seem very alarmed all the time, constantly screaming in a strange, disjointed dialect of JavaScript.” Stewards plan? “Embrace my managerial role and endeavor to do as little as possible. The subsystems will sort it out.” Det er morsomt at følge Stewards overmodige forsøg på at være kaptajn. Som de fleste læger tror Steward de kan lidt af det hele. En leg med referencer – men måske for fragmenteret Barbara Truelove har åbenlyst haft det superhyggeligt med at skrive den her bog. Hun fortæller selv at reglerne var: smid et monster ombord, prøv at få så mange jokes og referencer til monsterets populærkulturelle historie ind som muligt, og tænk over hvordan det ville fungere i rummet. Der er masser af sjove detaljer. Skibet der transporterer Dracula til London i Bram Stokers bog hedder også Demeter. Wilhelmina Murray er Jonathan Harkers forlovede i Dracula. I bogens fem dele er der binær kode der oversættes til små jokes som “Artificial is the best kind of intelligent” og “I have never seen electric sheep.” Det er meget hyggeligt. Men det er også lidt som om bogen ikke helt selv ved hvor den er på vej hen. Anders beskriver det som om Barbara har skrevet 121 scener med monstre og rum-AI, blandet kortene, og så forsøgt at strikke en rød tråd på den måde stykkerne landede. Den fornemmelse er der lidt af. Action-scenerne er heller ikke bogens styrke. De er lidt svære at følge med i – hvem gør hvad, hvornår, hvorhenne og hvorfor. Det føles som dårlige Marvel-action-scener, hvor man mister fornemmelsen af, hvad der foregår. Det fede – og det mindre fede Det fede ved bogen er AI’erne og deres interne dynamikker. Demeter og Steward der slås om hvem der er klogere. Steward der er træt af at blive slukket midt i sætninger med “priority override.” Den scene hvor Agnus kommer tilbage efter 15 år på Jorden og skal rejse med Demeter igen? Rørende. Skibet er blevet totalt refurbished, og Agnus genkender først slet ikke Demeter. Det øjeblik hvor hun skraber overfladen af og finder sin barndoms AI-mor – det er faktisk ret godt. Men karaktererne er lidt flade. Selv Agnus, som er tættest på en hovedperson, er lidt bleg. Og monstrene? De er sjove nok som pop-kultur-jokes, men ikke særlig interessante som karakterer. Det er underholdning så længe det varer – fed til en togtur – men ikke en der skal læses igen. Vurderingen Jens: ⭐⭐⭐ (tre stjerner). “Jeg synes jeg var godt underholdt. Det var et sjovt take, og jeg hyggede mig med alle de mange referencer. Det er ikke stor litteratur. Men af og til er det rart med noget let og fornøjeligt. Synes Demeters kamp med at forstå mennesker var kongesjov og også dens kollegiale kampe med Steward AI’en.” Anders: ⭐⭐⭐ (tre stjerner). “Jeg applauderer Barbara for at have fået en sjov idé og åbenlyst have haft det superhyggeligt med at skrive bogen. Men jeg var sært ligeglad med karaktererne, selvom Demeter og Steward havde deres øjeblikke. Jeg synes der var alt for meget fokus på ligegyldig action, og historien var alt for fragmenteret uden en god fornemmelse af udvikling.” Bogen minder os om Stefano Benni’s Terra – skør, vild og kreativ science fiction. Og selvfølgelig Blindsight af Peter Watts, som også har vampyrer i rummet. Adrian Tchaikovskys Service Model har også klare paralleller med robotter der forsøger at forstå sig selv og omverden. Jens og Anders har SCIFI SNAKKET Of Monsters and Mainframes. Shownotes til episoden om Of Monsters and Mainframes Siden sidst Anders Har set Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein på Netflix – meget teatralsk og med store armebevægelser. Kulisserne er for vilde. Den er lidt i stil med Dracula-filmatiseringen med Gary Oldman. Meget Guillermo del Toro-stil – hvis man er til det, er den vellykket. Anders gav den 6 ud af 10. Har læst The Other Valley af Scott Alexander Howard – en tidsrejsebog med meget lidt science i den. Vi lever i et mærkeligt parallelunivers hvor en by ligger i en dal. I dalen østpå lever de 20 år ude i fremtiden, i dalen vestpå 20 år tilbage i tiden. Meget strenge regler for at man ikke må gå frem og tilbage. Velskrevet og medrivende historie. Jens Har læst The Mercy of Gods af James S.A. Corey – Expanse-forfatterne er tilbage med en helt ny verden. Anbefalet af Søren Bjørn. Mercy of Gods foregår i en fjern fremtid på en planet hvor befolkningen kun har myter om koloniseringen. Vi er blandt videnskabsfolk som forsker i hvordan inkompatible træer af liv kan samleve. Men planeten bliver pludselig invaderet af en alien race – kæmpe hummer/knæler-agtige typer. Menneskeheden bliver sat på prøve for at se om man kan være en nyttig undersåt-race. Og samtidig går det op for os at der er en kæmpe galaktisk krig igang, og en af menneskene er blevet overtaget af en sværm af nanorobotter! Trailer ude for Ryan Gosling i rollen som Ryland Grace i Project Hail Mary af Andy Weir. Kommer i biffen den 20/3. Traileren spoiler bogen helt vildt, og der er kommet en masse action-scener som ikke findes i bogen. Lytternes input Masser af gode kommentarer fra kommentarfeltet om de gode læseoplevelser i 2025. Hennings top 3/2025: “Dying inside” af Robert Silverberg, 1972, om en ældre telepat der gradvist mister sin tankelæserevne. “Hard landing” af Algis Budrys, 1993, om hvordan en besætning fra en forulykket UFO forsøger at glide ind i og camouflere sig i det jordiske samfund. “Dark is the Sun”, af Philip Jose Farmer, 1979, om en Jord millioner af år ude i fremtiden, hvor Solen er ved at brænde sammen. Som Henning selv siger: “Det er eddermame nogle deprimerende indskud.” Frederik Aarup Lauritsen delte sin top 3 for 2025: Stiftelsen af Isaac Asimov, Station 11 af Emily St. John Mandel og Efter London af Richard Jefferies – en tussegammel post-apokalyptisk bog fra 1885. Kristofferabild har ikke så meget tid til at læse Sci-Fi for tiden – er gået en lille smule i stå med Count Zero. I 2025 var det bedste han (gen)læste Rendezvous With Rama, Restaurant At The End of The Universe og Murderbot 2 og 3. Michael har ikke fået læst så meget SF sidste år, men var sært glad ved Krystalverdenen af J.G. Ballard, The Ministry of Time på vores anbefaling – “det var jo næsten en hel hjertevarm sag – sjov at komme i gang med noget romance!” – og til sidst Jordboer af Sayaka Murata, som nok er en snitter i forhold til ren SF, men en tour de force i japansk dagligliv, body horror og nogle måske rumvæsner. “Prøv det. Den er crazy!” Majbritt Høyrup gjorde opmærksom på at Elle Cordova behandler The Power i sin blogklub. Hun vil anbefale to vidunderlige novellesamlinger af Ursula K. LeGuin: The Birthday of the World og Changing Planes. Lise bidrog med sine tre bedste bøger: American Elsewhere af Robert Jackson Bennett: Starter som Twin Peaks, går over i H. P. Lovecraft. En kvinde arver et hus i en by, som ikke findes på noget kort. Cosmicomics af Italo Calvino: Vi følger universets og Jordens tilblivelse gennem væsner/grundstoffer og deres oplevelser, interaktioner og kærlighed. En fin og underfundig lille novellesamling. The Prestige af Christopher Priest: En overraskende god bog. Hun har set filmen, men bogen er meget anderledes – hele det spekulative element fylder mere, og historien er langt mere mystisk. Næste gang Anders vælger næste bog: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus fra 1818. Den fås gratis som Project Gutenberg Public Domain e-pop eller PDF. Man taler tit om den som den første moderne science fiction-bog, så den er nærmest pensum for SCIFI SNAK. Jens har tidligere syntes den var røvkedelig, men er nu klar til at prøve igen – måske er han et andet menneske nu.

Send a textOriginally published in Asimov's Science Fiction (June 1986), “The Bloody Man” introduces Jack Limekiller—a restless, observant outsider navigating a place where history, folklore, and uneasy truths overlap. In this episode, we set the stage for Avram Davidson's singular voice, its rhythms, humor, and moral complexity, and the world Limekiller inhabits.#AvramDavidson #JackLimekiller #TheBloodyMan #WeirdFiction #LiteraryFantasy #Asimovs#ClassicSpeculativeFiction

By day, Lori Selke is an ESL instructor (and stealth adjunct composition instructor) who lives in Oakland, California. But beneath that wholesome and mild-mannered facade lurks a zine veteran, an education and social justice academic, a queer writer and activist, and a general thorn in the side of normativity. Their fiction has been previously published inNightmare Magazine, Strange Horizons, and Asimov's; their nonfiction has appeared at NPR.org, Offbeat Home, The Billfold, and the SF Weekly, as well as the open-access academic journals Refuge and the International Journal of Human Rights Education. This story originally appeared in Outlaw Bodies (2012).Narration by: Will StaglWill Stagl lives in Tucson, Arizona and is a proud member of the StarShipSofa team. He's like to kick off the new year by inviting any listeners interested in narration to contact him at williamstagl@gmail.com to join our stellar team of volunteer voice actors.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Traditionally on Science Fiction 101, we follow up our "old magazine" review with a review of its modern counterpart - and this year is no exception, as in this episode we cast our eyes over a very recent issue of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, dated Nov/Dec 2025.No time for a quiz this time (shock horror!), but it will return in our next episode.But we do make time for our usual round-up of what's notable in past, present and future SF.For the full shownotes or to leave a comment, visit our blog at 101sf.blogspot.com

A lone explorer confronts a force that fractures identity, memory, and destiny itself. In a place where time refuses to behave, survival depends on facing what you were, what you are, and what you may yet become. Time Trap by Frank Belknap Long. That's next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.Discovered another 5 star rating and review today on Audible from Laura Van Wormer. “Scott Miller's narration of old science fiction short stories is just wonderful. Of course, so is the material! Everyone from Ray Bradbury to HG Wells to Lovecraft to Asimov to Jack London and on and on... But there are also the one-timer sci-fi short-story writers that are relatively unknown and Miller provides a little background on them all. Extremely well done. Bravo, Scott Miller!”Thank you for that awesome review Laura. We don't care where you listen, we're just glad you're here and if you want to give give us a 5 star review, if you think we deserve it, we would appreciate it.This is a different kind of time travel story. Frank Belknap Long, a master of weird fiction, explores what happens when time itself turns predatory. Let's do a little time traveling of our own, to the Winter 1948 issue of Planet Stories magazine and discover this eerie tale on page 109, Time Trap by Frank Belknap Long…Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, Across unimaginable scales of time and space, a young explorer risks everything to prove that intelligence can bloom in the most unlikely conditions. When his search for reason turns into an accusation of harm, the fate of two civilizations hangs on what it truly means to be rational.Buy Me a Coffee - https://lostscifi.com/coffeeNewsletter - https://lostscifi.com/free/Rise - http://Lostscifi.com/riseX - http://Lostscifi.com/xInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/lostscifiguyFacebook - https://lostscifi.com/facebookYouTube - https://lostscifi.com/youtube❤️ ❤️ Thanks to Our Listeners Who Bought Us a Coffee$200 Someone$100 Tony from the Future$75 James Van Maanenberg$50 MizzBassie, Anonymous Listener$25 Someone, Eaten by a Grue, Jeff Lussenden, Fred Sieber, Anne, Craig Hamilton, Dave Wiseman, Bromite Thrip, Marwin de Haan, Future Space Engineer, Fressie, Kevin Eckert, Stephen Kagan, James Van Maanenberg, Irma Stolfo, Josh Jennings, Leber8tr, Conrad Chaffee, Anonymous Listener$15 Every Month Someone$15 SueTheLibrarian, Joannie West, Amy Özkan, Someone, Carolyn Guthleben, Patrick McLendon, Curious Jon, Buz C., Fressie, Anonymous Listener$10 Anonymous Listener$5 Every Month Eaten by a Grue$5 TLD, David, Denis Kalinin, Timothy Buckley, Andre'a, Martin Brown, Ron McFarlan, Tif Love, Chrystene, Richard Hoffman, Anonymous Listenerhttps://lostscifi.com/podcast/time-trap-by-frank-belknap-long/Please participate in our podcast survey https://podcastsurvey.typeform.com/to/gNLcxQlk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This show has been flagged as Clean by the host. This brings us to a look at some of Arthur C. Clarke's other stories, A Time Odyssey (1951), Tales From the White Hart (1957), The Nine Billion Names of God (1954), The Star (1955), Dolphin Island (1964), and A Meeting With Medusa (1971. These stories will wrap up our look at Clarke's Science Fiction and we have seen a lot of good stuff here. And as a final note, we cover CLarke's Three Laws. Arthur C. Clarke: Other Works, A Time Odyssey A collaboration between two of science fiction's best authors: what could possibly go wrong? Well, something went wrong. This series is not bad, but I hesitate to describe it as good. This series was described by Clarke as neither a prequel nor a sequel, but an “orthoquel”, a name coined from “orthogonal”, which means something roughly like “at right angles”, though it is also used in statistics to denote events that are independent and do not influence each other. And in relativity theory Time is orthogonal to Space. And in multi-dimensional geometry we can talk about axes in each dimension as orthogonal to all of the others. It is something I can't picture, being pretty much limited to three dimensions, but it can be described mathematically. It is sort of like the 2001 series, but not really. It has globes instead of monoliths. And the spheres have a circumference and volume that is related to their radius not by the usual pi, but by exactly three. Just what this means I am not sure, other than they are not sphere's in any usual sense of the word. In this story these spheres seem to be gathering people from various eras and bringing them to some other planet which gets christened “Mir”, though not in any way to the Russian Space Station. It is a Russian word that can mean “peace”, “world”, or “village”. I have seen it used a lot to refer to a village in my studies of Russian history. Anyway, the inhabitants include two hominids, a mother and daughter, a group of British Redcoats, Mongols from the Genghis Khan era, a UN Peacekeeper helicopter, a Russian space capsule, an unknown Rudyard Kipling, the army of Alexander The Great… Well at least they have lots of characters to throw around. They end up taking sides and fighting each other. In the end several of the people are returned to Earth in their own time. But the joke is on them. The beings behind the spheres are call themselves The Firstborn because they were the first to achieve sentience. They figure that best way for them to remain safe is to wipe out any other race that achieves sentience, making them to polar opposite of the beings behind the monoliths in 2001, for whom the mind is sacred. Anyway, the Firstborn have arranged for a massive solar flare that will wipe out all life on Earth and completely sterilize the planet, but conveniently it will happen in 5 years, leaving time for plot development. Of course the people of Earth will try to protect themselves. Then in the third book of the series an ominous object enters the solar system. This is of course a callback to the Rama object. It is like they wanted to take everything from the Rama series and twist it. While I love a lot of Clarke's work and some of Baxter's as well, I think this is eminently skippable. The two of them also collaborated on the final White Hart story, which isn't bad Other Works Tales from the White Hart This collection of short stories has a unity of the setting, a pub called White Hart, where a character tells outrageous stories. Other characters are thinly disguised science fiction authors, including Clarke himself. Clarke mentions that he was inspired to do this by the Jorkens stories of Lord Dunsany, which are also outrageous tall tales, but lacking the science fictions aspects of Clarke's stories. Of course this type of story has a long history, in which we would do well to mention the stories of Baron Munchausen, and of course the stories of L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt as found in Tales from Gavagan's Bar. And Spider Robinson would take this basic idea and turn it into a series of books about Callahan's Place. Stories of this type are at least as much Fantasy as anything, but quite enjoyable, and I think I can recommend all of these as worth the time to while away a cold winter's evening while sitting by a warm fire with a beverage of choice. The Nine Billion Names of God This short story won a retrospective Hugo in 2004 as being the best short story of 1954. The idea is that a group of Tibetan monks believe that the purpose of the universe is to identify the nine billion names of God, and once that has been done the universe will no longer have a purpose and will cease to exist. They have been identifying candidates and writing them down, but the work is very slow, so they decide that maybe with a little automation they can speed it up. So they get a computer (and in 1954, you should be picturing a room-sized mainframe), and then hire some Western programmers to develop the program to do this. The programmers don't believe the monks are on to anything here, but a paycheck is a paycheck. They finish the program and start it running, but decide they don't want to be there when the monks discover their theory doesn't work, so they take off early without telling anyone, and head down the mountain. But on the way, they see the stars go out, one by one. The Star This classic short story won the Hugo for Best Short Story in 1956. The story opens with the return of an interstellar expedition that has been studying a system where the star went nova millennia ago. But the expedition's astrophysicist, a Jesuit Priest, seems to be in a crisis of faith. And if you think it implausible that a Jesuit Priest could also be an astrophysicist, I would suggest you look into the case of the Belgian priest Georges Lemaître, who first developed the theory of the Big Bang. Anyway, in the story, they learn that this system had a planet much like Earth, and it had intelligent beings much like Earth, who were peaceful, but in a tragic turn of events they knew that their star was going to explode, but they had no capability of interstellar travel. So they created a repository on the outermost planet of the system that would survive the explosion, and left records of their civilization. And when the Jesuit astrophysicist calculated the time of the explosion and the travel time for light, he is shaken: “[O]h God, there were so many stars you could have used. What was the need to give these people to the fire, that the symbol of their passing might shine above Bethlehem?” Dolphin Island This is a good Young Adult novel about the People of the Sea, who are dolphins. They save a young boy who had stowed away on a hovership that subsequently had crashed, and because no one knew about him he was left among the wreckage when the crew takes off in the life boats. And from here it is the typical Bildungsroman you find in most Young Adult novels. The dolphins bring him to an island, where he becomes involved with a research community led by a professor who is trying to communicate with dolphins. He learns various skills there, survives dangers, and in the end has to risk his life to save the people on the island. If you have a 13 year old in your house, this is worth looking for. A Meeting With Medusa This won the 1972 Nebula Award for Best Novella. It concerns one Howard Falcon, who early in the story has an accident involving a helium-filled airship, is badly injured, and requires time and prosthetics to heal. But then he promotes an expedition to Jupiter that uses similar technology, a Hot-Hydrogen balloon-supported aircraft. This is to explore the upper reaches of Jupiter's atmosphere, which is the only feasible way to explore given the intense gravity of this giant planet. Attempting to land on the solid surface would mean being crushed by the gravity and air pressure, so that is not possible. The expedition finds there is life in the upper clouds of Jupiter. Some of it is microscopic, like a kind of “air plankton” which is bio-luminescent. But there are large creatures as well, one of which is like jellyfish, but about a mile across. This is the Medusa of the title. Another is Manta-like creature, about 100 yards across, that preys on the Medusa. But when the Medusa starts to take an interest on Falcon's craft, he decides to get out quick for safety's sake. And we learn that because of the various prosthetics implanted after the airship accident Falcon is really a cyborg with much faster reactions than ordinary humans. As we have discussed previously, Clarke loved the sea, and in this novella he is using what he knows in that realm to imagine a plausible ecology in the atmosphere of Jupiter. Of course when he wrote this novella no one knew about the truly frightening level of radiation around Jupiter, but then a clever science fiction writer could come up with a way to work around that. Clarke's Three Laws Finally, no discussion of Arthur C. Clarke can omit his famous Three Laws. Asimov had his Three Laws of Robotics, and Clarke had his Three Laws of Technology. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. This concludes our look at Arthur C. Clarke, the second of the Big Three of the Golden Age of Science Fiction. And that means we are ready to tackle the Dean of Science Fiction, Robert A. Heinlein. Links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Time_Odyssey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_the_White_Hart https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Jorkens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Munchausen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_Gavagan%27s_Bar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callahan%27s_Crosstime_Saloon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Star_(Clarke_short_story) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin_Island_(novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Meeting_with_Medusa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws https://www.palain.com/science-fiction/the-golden-age/arthur-c-clarke/arthur-c-clarke-other-works/ Provide feedback on this episode.

Masterclass gratis CÓMO ESCRIBIR UNA NOVELA ➡️https://www.letraminuscula.com/como-escribir-una-novela/ "La resistencia ludita" de Roberto Augusto ➡️https://www.letraminuscula.com/amz/B0F8W34377 RESUMEN: Descubre en este vídeo las claves para escribir ciencia ficción de forma efectiva, basadas en una lección del curso “Cómo escribir una novela”. Aprenderás los fundamentos del género, sus subgéneros, el desarrollo de personajes, construcción de mundos y cómo integrar ciencia, filosofía y narrativa en tus historias. ⏲MARCAS DE TIEMPO: ▶️00:00 Presentación del curso y del tema ▶️01:27 Amor personal por la ciencia ficción ▶️03:08 Ciencia vs fantasía en la narrativa ▶️04:49 Personalidades y afinidad con el género ▶️06:31 Críticas a la ciencia ficción como género ▶️07:59 Problemas literarios en la ciencia ficción ▶️09:34 Asimov: ciencia y literatura bien combinadas ▶️11:00 Futuro imaginado refleja el presente ▶️12:22 Crítica social desde civilizaciones ficticias ▶️13:44 Ciencia ficción no siempre se sitúa en el futuro ▶️15:10 Importancia de la plausibilidad científica ▶️16:48 Ciencia ficción sobrenatural vs híbrida ▶️18:14 Impacto humano más que tecnológico ▶️19:36 Filosofía y ética en la ciencia ficción ▶️21:00 Recomendación: Los Altísimos de Hugo Correa ▶️22:26 Ciencia ficción dura centrada en la ciencia ▶️23:46 Ciencia ficción blanda con enfoque social ▶️25:09 Ciberpunk y ucronía como subgéneros ▶️26:35 Steampunk y retrofuturismo explicados ▶️28:08 Worldbuilding: diseño del mundo futuro ▶️29:17 Ejemplos de malas predicciones tecnológicas ▶️30:33 Política, economía y tecnología en el futuro ▶️31:58 Ejemplo: economía futura en Star Trek ▶️33:19 Carencia de desarrollo en personajes ▶️34:41 Tipos comunes de personajes del género ▶️36:00 Rebelión, IA consciente y tópicos comunes ▶️37:25 Estructura narrativa en ciencia ficción ▶️38:42 Premisa, conflicto, clímax y conclusión

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Music courtesy of Harpeth Presbyterian Church, used with permission. Next on our literary excursion of the field of autonomous beings, we look at Blade Runner (1982) (replicants), and the cowardly computer HAL from 2001 (A Space Odyssey - 1968)I wish to acknowledge Jerome George for the LinkedIn post of January 3, 2026. "Asimov introduced his famous Three Laws of Robotics in the 1942 short story 'Runaround,' creating what would become the ethical cornerstone of robotics discourse for decades."

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En "No apuntes con el dedo" un anciano señala un libro de Shakespeare en el momento de su muerte para indicar donde están las acciones que deja a la familia en herencia. 'El Club de los Viudos Negros', de Asimov. CENA DE ENERO 🍷🍰 📍 Ristorante Casa Milano – Milano, Italia 🧭 Coordenadas: 45°28'19.8"N 9°12'06.4"E Isaac Asimov los creó como un homenaje al placer de conversar, al arte de observar y a la deliciosa costumbre de no quedarse con la primera respuesta. Acomódate. El vino está servido. La cena va a comenzar. Y tú… Tú también estás invitado. Un círculo discreto de seis caballeros que se reúnen una vez al mes, siempre en el mismo restaurante, siempre en la misma mesa, y siempre con una única regla: cada cena debe tener un invitado, y ese invitado debe estar dispuesto a hablar y a ser interrogado. 🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕸 Los Viudos Negros son un club de seis hombres que se reúnen una vez al mes en un reservado del restaurante Milano de Nueva York. Cada noche uno de ellos preside el encuentro y tiene el derecho de llevar un invitado, al que interrogan. Al principio sólo se reunían para comer y conversar pero últimamente uno de ellos plantea algún tipo de problema o delito. Los miembros del club buscan respuestas complejas a los enigmas planteados y luego Henry, el camarero, descubre la simple verdad. El club está formado por:🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷 Geoffrey Avalon, Jeff. Alto y delgado, espesas cejas negras, bigote recortado y barbita gris. Fue oficial durante la II Guerra Mundial y trabaja como abogado en derecho patentario. Mario Gonzalo, pintor y gran artista. Thomas Trumbull. Rostro moreno y arrugado, permanentemente descontento. Experto en códigos, alto consejero del gobierno. Emmanuel Rubin, Manny. Bajito, mide 1,55, barba rala, lentes gruesos. Fue predicador adventista con 15 años y conoce bien la Biblia. Está casado y es escritor de novelas policíacas. James Drake. Bigote. Vive en New Jersey. Especialista en química orgánica con amplios conocimientos en literatura. Roger Halsted, calvo. Profesor de matemáticas en una escuela secundaria. Escribe la Ilíada en quintillas y todos los meses les recita una estrofa. Es miembro de los Irregulares de Baker Street. Henry Jackson, el camarero. Unos 60 años, sin arrugas. Es humilde y honrado. Entre ellos se llaman doctores y si uno es doctor de carrera le denominan doctor doctor. Para ayudarse en sus investigaciones cuentan con diccionarios, biblias y las obras de Shakespeare en su biblioteca. Y recuerda que puedes seguirnos en Telegram, YouTube, Instagram y X, y si este podcast te acompaña, te inspira o te gusta lo que hago, puedes hacerte fan y apoyar la nave. Tu energía mantiene viva esta aventura sonora.🚀 Aquí te dejo la página directa para apoyarme: 🍻 https://www.ivoox.com/support/552842 ¡¡Muchas gracias por todos tus comentarios y por tu apoyo!! Voz y sonido Olga Paraíso, Música epidemic sound con licencia premium autorizada para este podcast. ⏩BIO Olga Paraíso: https://instabio.cc/Hleidas PLAYLIST EL CLUB DE LOS VIUDOS NEGROS EN Ivoox https://go.ivoox.com/bk/11290149 Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Acciaio, vapore, menti infinite: cosa ci nasconde l'entusiasmo della Silicon Valley?Ivan Zhao, CEO di Notion, ha pubblicato un saggio visionario che paragona l'intelligenza artificiale ai materiali che hanno trasformato la storia. In questa puntata analizzo le sue metafore brillanti, dalla bicicletta all'automobile, dall'acciaio ai grattacieli, da Firenze a Tokyo, ma mi fermo dove il suo entusiasmo accelera troppo.In questo episodio esploro:La tesi di Zhao: l'IA come nuovo materiale miracoloso che trasformerà individui, organizzazioni ed economieIl paradosso della supervisione a distanza: come manteniamo competenza se deleghiamo sempre di più?La deriva algoritmica: il processo graduale per cui le decisioni umane vengono sostituite per convenienza incrementaleLa lezione dimenticata di Asimov: quando spegnere non è più un'opzioneLa vera domanda non è se costruiremo qualcosa di nuovo, ma se stiamo costruendo una casa o una prigione.00:00:00 Introduzione e ringraziamenti00:01:14 Ogni epoca ha il suo materiale miracoloso00:02:29 I due ostacoli: frammentazione e verificabilità00:08:48 La differenza fondamentale: menti pensanti00:17:55 Il paradosso della supervisione00:29:30 La lezione di Asimov

Embustero, Yo robot, especial Susan Calvin, de Isaac Asimov. Comenzamos 2026 con un regalo que llevaba demasiado tiempo guardado. Libero una historia de hace más de un año, una de esas que huelen a metal caliente y a futuro incierto. Los que me conocéis ya sabéis que tengo una devoción por las historias de robots. Adoro a Isaac Asimov con la misma intensidad con la que uno escucha un latido dentro de una máquina. Abre este audio y deja que la historia respire contigo y. sobre todo, quédate hasta el final. Los créditos esconden una pequeña sorpresa. Mi versión de este relato. Una chispa final. Y que 2026 empiece con ese brillo eléctrico que sólo los relatos buenos saben encender.🥂 A veces, incluso los robots mienten. A veces, incluso nosotros buscamos que lo hagan. En sus relatos de robots, recogidos en Yo, Robot (1950) y El segundo libro de robots (1964), Asimov fijó las tres leyes de la robótica, que ponen al robot al servicio total del hombre y, aunque algunas veces parecen violarlas, se acaba descubriendo que esto sucede en aras de un interés superior de la Humanidad. Pero mientras los robots evolucionan hacia un modelo androide de inteligencia y lucidez moral superiores a las de los hombres, éstos, movidos por sus impulsos egoístas, incuban una profunda hostilidad hacia ellos. Gracias una vez más a todos los taberneros y taberneras galácticas que apoyan este podcast. Cassilda y yo os mandamos abrazos, (Gina también).😘 Aquí te dejo el link directo si deseas apoyarme por 1,99 € al mes, gracias: https://www.ivoox.com/support/552842 Isaac Asimov contesta a tus preguntas de Ciencia (completo): 🎙https://go.ivoox.com/rf/68011824 Voz Camilo García. Puedes escuchar aquí SUEÑOS DE ROBOT: https://go.ivoox.com/rf/121528123 🤖 Una producción de Historias para ser leídas © voz y sonido Olga Paraíso Cierre musical -Dear Moon- Velvet Moon 🎶 maravilloso🖤 tema de Epidemic Sound con licencia autorizada premium para este podcast. 🛑BIO Olga Paraíso: https://instabio.cc/Hleidas Puedes escuchar a Mashara aquí: Parte 1: Mashara v2.0 https://go.ivoox.com/rf/143260345 Parte 2: Mashara v2.0 https://go.ivoox.com/rf/143449783 Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Büyük Sorular'ın bu bölümünde Sinan Canan'la yapay zeka ve tanrı tasavvuru arasındaki ilişkiyi, insanın güç ve irade arayışını ve “her şeyi bilen” bir varlık yaratma dürtümüzü konuşuyoruz. Yapay zekayı sadece teknik bir araç değil, modern çağın “dijital âlimi” ve otorite figürü olarak görme eğilimimizi masaya yatırıyoruz.Yapay zekaya tapınan tarikatların ortaya çıkma ihtimalinden, otoriteyi güce devretme alışkanlığımıza; Asimov'un robot yasalarından, insanlığın ortak değer üretememesinin yapay zeka etiğine etkisine kadar pek çok çarpıcı örnek üzerinden ilerliyoruz. Hayatın anlamını teknolojiden “hazır almak” ile kendi anlamını kendin inşa etmek arasındaki farkı da bu bölümde ele alıyoruz.

KATIE CROSS - BIOGRAPHY Katie Cross is ALL ABOUT writing epic magic and wild places. Creating new fantasy worlds is her jam. When she's not hiking or chasing her two littles through the Montana mountains, you can find her curled up reading a book or arguing with her husband over the best kind of sushi. Visit her at www.KatieCrossBooks.com for free short stories, extra savings on all her books (and some you can't buy on the retailers), and so much more. Mark McWaters has long been a fan of all things that go bump in the night, scratch at the door, or blow cold air on the back of your neck. From a very young age, he carried a pad and pencil around with him, composing poems to give to girls. He devoured all the Hardy Boys and Doc Savage books he could get his hands on and expanded his reading horizons from there. Robert Heinlein, Asimov, and Bradbury, whetted his appetite for Sci-Fi. Ann Rice's Interview With The Vampire blew his mind. A scene from Stephen King's Salem's Lot haunts him to this day. And Watcher by Dean Koontz made him a lifelong fan. He earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Became an award-winning advertising copywriter and creative director and earned enough Clios, Addys, and Communication Arts awards for bragging rights. As a writer, Mark discovered the Florida Writers Association, critique groups and writing competitions. He's won a steady stream of FWA Royal Palm Literary awards for his unpublished short stories and novels. The inspiration behind “Ghost Dog” came while reading entry rules for a magazine looking for unusual spins on traditional horror. Houses, people, dolls, even cars get haunted. So, he thought, why not dogs? Bentley, a West Highland White Terrier who sleeps under Mark's desk while he writes, agreed. The Contest, one of the most prestigious writing and illustrating competitions in the world, is currently in its 43rd year and is judged by some of the premier names in speculative fiction. The Writers of the Future Contest judges include, Tim Powers (author of On Stranger Tides), Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert (Dune prequel series), Robert J. Sawyer (The Oppenheimer Alternative), Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn series, The Stormlight Archive), Larry Niven (Ringworld), Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game), Nnedi Okorafor (Who Fears Death), Hugh Howey (Wool), and Katherine Kurtz (Deryni series) to name a few. The Illustrators of the Future Contest judges include, Bob Eggleton (11 Chesley Awards and 9 Hugo Awards), Larry Elmore (Dungeons & Dragons book covers), Echo Chernik (graphic designs for major corporations including Celestial Seasonings tea packaging), Rob Prior (art for Spawn, Heavy Metal comics and Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Ciruelo (Eragon Coloring Book).

Snak-Lytter Cem kaldte Star Maker “storslået, tidskrævende, men mindblowing”. Han havde ret på alle tre punkter. Storslået? Absolut. Syret? Uden tvivl. Men også en rigtig hård mundfuld at komme igennem. Fra lyngbakke til galaktisk bevidsthed Bogen starter forbløffende jordnært. En unavngiven englænder sidder en aften i 1937 på en bakke og betragter stjernerne, mens han tænker på sit liv og sit ægteskab. Hans kone sidder inde i det oplyste hus. Men så sker der noget radikalt: Hans bevidsthed løsriver sig fra kroppen, og pludselig kan han se gennem jorden – gennem klipperne, gennem planetens kerne – og ud i kosmos. “Looking down, I seemed to see through a transparent planet, through heather and solid rock, through the buried graveyards of vanished species, down through the molten flow of basalt, and on into the earth’s core of iron. But our home had vanished with the whole suburb, and the hills too, and the sea.” Her begynder den mest ekstreme kosmiske rejse i science fiction-historien. Først tilbringer hovedpersonen lang tid alene i det tomme rum, deprimeret og ensom. Men så opdager han The Other Earth – en planet befolket med menneskelignende væsener, der har lange ben, flade hoveder, og som lugter gennem hænderne. De har ikke meget musik, men til gengæld har de duftradio, hvor man kan opleve andres seksuelle oplevelser gennem lugten. Ja, det er præcis så syret, som det lyder. “In compensation, scent and taste developed amazingly. These beings tasted not only with their mouths, but with their moist black hands and with their feet. They were thus afforded an extraordinarily rich and intimate experience of their planet.” Hovedpersonen opdager, at han kan glide ind i de fremmedes hoveder. Han bosætter sig i kraniet på en halskør filosof ved navn Bvallthu, og gradvist smelter de sammen til en fælles personlighed. Fra denne sammensmelting vokser noget langt større. Hive minds, intelligente stjerner og kosmisk teambuilding Stapledon stopper ikke ved én planet. Nej nej. Vores hovedperson møder plantemennesker, insektlignende sværme (hvor enkeltindividet er dumt, men sværmen udgør en intelligens), symbiontiske krabber og edderkopper. Og – naturligvis – intelligente stjerner, der ikke bare kredser om den galaktiske kerne, men faktisk danser og kommunikerer med hinanden i kosmisk poesi. Hele tiden udvides den kollektive bevidsthed. Først én planet. Så flere. Så hele galakser. Stapledon bruger disse møder til at reflektere over civilisationers cykliske udviklinger. Igen og igen ser vi samfund, der når et vist niveau af udvikling, hvorefter det hele bryder sammen i konflikt og krig, og de må starte forfra. Stapledon – filosof, pacifist og ambulancefører under Første Verdenskrig – havde tydeligvis nogle meninger om 1930’ernes Europa. Duftradio-beskrivelserne lugter af propaganda-kritik. Men alle disse civilisationer, alle disse møder, peger mod ét mål. Mødet med den kolde skaber Bogens klimaks er mødet med Star Maker – universets skaber. Men det er ikke et kærligt, varmt møde med en omsorgsfuld gud. Nej, Star Maker betragter sit kosmos med den kliniske interesse, en kunstner har for sit værk. Han noterer fejlene. Føler ingen stolthed. For det her kosmos er bare ét eksperiment i en lang række. Star Maker er stadig i udvikling – fra baby-starmaker, der lavede legetøjsuniverser (ét univers bestod kun af musik uden rumlige dimensioner!), til mester-starmaker, der skaber stadigt mere komplekse kosmosser. Vores univers? Meh, et mellemstadie med “irrevocable flaws”. “For I had been confronted not by welcoming and kindly love, but by a very different spirit. It seemed to me that he gazed down on me from the height of his divinity with the aloof though passionate attention of an artist judging his finished work, calmly rejoicing in its achievement, but recognizing at last the irrevocable flaws.” En teologisk vision, både fascinerende og foruroligende. C.S. Lewis hadede den så meget, at han kaldte den “amoralsk” og skrev sin Space Trilogy som modsvar. Men Arthur C. Clarke elskede den og kaldte den den mest indflydelsesrige bog i sit liv. Efter mødet vender vores hovedperson tilbage til bakken, til lyngen, til konen i huset. Men nu med et radikalt ændret perspektiv på menneskehedens plads i kosmos. Og hans kone? Hun må have været bekymret. Han har været væk i milliarder af år – selvom der kun er gået et øjeblik. En bog der ikke er en bog Stapledon skriver selv i forordet, at bogen “by the standards of the novel, is remarkably bad. In fact, it is no novel at all.” Og han har ret. Intet plot. Ingen karakterudvikling. Ingen dialog. Bare en filosofisk meditation, en kosmisk traktat, en 300 siders stream of consciousness. Sproget er tungt – næsten 100 år gammelt og tit vanskeligt at følge. Som Anders siger: “Det føltes som en bog, der var skrevet 100 år før den faktisk blev skrevet.” Gang på gang beskriver Stapledon nye planeter, nye racer, nye samfund – som alle gennemgår de samme cyklusser. På et tidspunkt begynder man at skimme. Anders indrømmer blankt, at han “skimmede 10-20 sider ad gangen” gennem store dele af bogen. Men den er også fuld af idéer, som formede science fiction: Hive minds, galaktiske imperier, intelligente stjerner, telepatisk kommunikation, multivers-teorier. Kim Stanley Robinson sagde det bedst: “Every few pages contain all the material of an ordinary science fiction novel, condensed to something like prose poetry.” Vurderingen Jens: ⭐ (én stjerne). “Jeg havde ikke læst den færdig, hvis det ikke var for Sci-Fi Snak. Det er simpelthen killeren på en bog. Jeg kan godt se, at der ligger kvaliteter i den, men den er utrolig træls og langsomt skrevet. Jeg havde absencer, mens jeg læste.” Anders: ⭐⭐ (to stjerner – men med et spaltet sind). “De første 100 sider var smukke og poetiske. Den 17-årige hippie Anders indeni mig blev vakt til live af den kropsløse bevidsthedsrejse i kosmos. Men så blev det repetitivt. Jeg var tæt på at forsvinde helt ud af bogen.” En bog for alle? Næppe. “Hvis ikke jeg var 100% sikker på, at Henning allerede havde læst den, så ville jeg nok anbefale den til Henning,” griner Anders. Men hvis du er forfatter og leder efter idéer? Så er Star Maker en idébank uden lige. Arthur C. Clarke, Asimov, Le Guin og Kim Stanley Robinson lod sig alle inspirere. Og hvis du vil have en special science fiction-oplevelse – lidt spirituel filosofi, lidt mind-blowing kosmisk vision, lidt Iron Man læseoplevelse – så kan Star Maker være noget for dig. Jens og Anders har SCIFI SNAKKET Star Maker. Shownotes til episoden om Star Maker Siden sidst Jens Er totalt gået i Mick Herron-læsemode og læser spionthrillers Ser Pluribus på Apple TV – “Jeg er så glad for den, jeg næsten kan finde på at stå lidt tidligere op fredag morgen for at se et afsnit” Anders Har læst Dream Hotel af Laila Lalami – en bog om predictive policing og AI-drevne drømmeanalyser Hovedpersonen bliver tilbageholdt på et “opbevaringshotel” for folk, der måske vil begå forbrydelser i fremtiden (kafkask, men underholdende) Har læst Quantum of Menace af Vaseem Khan – en thriller om Q fra James Bond-universet Ser også Pluribus – “Den er crazy god” Lytternes input Fra Goodreads: Steen spørger om lydbogstjenester til bilkørsel. E-reolen og Libby har gratis biblioteksmaterialer (danske og engelske). Mofibo har et stort sci-fi-katalog. Og så er der selvfølgelig Audible. Julerabat fra Science Fiction Cirklen: Lise tilbyder en decemberrabat på den danske udgave af Stjernemageren – 200 kr. i stedet for 298 kr. Det er faktisk ret fedt, at den findes på dansk! (sciencefiction.dk) Rettelse: David Mondrup, som anbefalede Zoi, er ikke Jane Mondrups mand – de er fætter og kusine. Undskyld, David! (Episode 99 af LæsDen! handler i øvrigt om Zoi) Mail fra Søren Bjørn-Hansen: Søren skrev fra sit sygeleje, hvor Sci-Fi Snak var “en tryg favn når febervildelserne raser”. Han gav input om Arthur C. Clarke og geostationære satellitter – Clarke skrev om kommunikationssatellitter i Wireless World i 1945 og forudså atomdrevne raketter inden for 20 år. Sådan gik det ikke helt. Søren foreslog også, at vi læser James Coreys The Mercy of Gods (den nye bog fra teamet bag Expanse-serien). Næste gang Anders vælger: Naomi Aldermans The Future (2023) – en nærfremtids-thriller om tech-milliardærer, der får en advarsel fra deres predictive software: apokalypsen er på vej, og de skal ned i deres hemmelige bunkere. Samtidig følger vi Lai Zhen, der pludselig bliver jagtet af en lejemorder og kun overlever takket være mystisk software på hendes telefon. Margaret Atwood kalder den “gripping”. Lauren Beukes: “A little Atwood, a little Gibson, all Alderman, it’s brilliant.” Alistair Reynolds: “A rollicking, fun-packed thriller.” Vi håber på en page-turner efter Stapledons filosofiske sejtrækker. Bonus-anbefaling: Se Guillermo del Toros nye filmatisering af Frankenstein på Netflix – der skulle være ret bognær. Måske vender vi tilbage til det senere.

Os deseo unas felices fiestas llenas de secretos, sonrisas y momentos misteriosos, os espero en el Restaurante Milano. Chin Chin!! 🥂❤️ 🚀 'El Club de los Viudos Negros', de Asimov. CENA DE diciembre 🍷🍰 📍 Ristorante Casa Milano – Milano, Italia 🧭 Coordenadas: 45°28'19.8"N 9°12'06.4"E Isaac Asimov los creó como un homenaje al placer de conversar, al arte de observar y a la deliciosa costumbre de no quedarse con la primera respuesta. Acomódate. El vino está servido. La cena va a comenzar. Y tú… Tú también estás invitado. Un círculo discreto de seis caballeros que se reúnen una vez al mes, siempre en el mismo restaurante, siempre en la misma mesa, y siempre con una única regla: cada cena debe tener un invitado, y ese invitado debe estar dispuesto a hablar y a ser interrogado. 🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕸 Los Viudos Negros son un club de seis hombres que se reúnen una vez al mes en un reservado del restaurante Milano de Nueva York. Cada noche uno de ellos preside el encuentro y tiene el derecho de llevar un invitado, al que interrogan. Al principio sólo se reunían para comer y conversar pero últimamente uno de ellos plantea algún tipo de problema o delito. Los miembros del club buscan respuestas complejas a los enigmas planteados y luego Henry, el camarero, descubre la simple verdad. El club está formado por:🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷 Geoffrey Avalon, Jeff. Alto y delgado, espesas cejas negras, bigote recortado y barbita gris. Fue oficial durante la II Guerra Mundial y trabaja como abogado en derecho patentario. Mario Gonzalo, pintor y gran artista. Thomas Trumbull. Rostro moreno y arrugado, permanentemente descontento. Experto en códigos, alto consejero del gobierno. Emmanuel Rubin, Manny. Bajito, mide 1,55, barba rala, lentes gruesos. Fue predicador adventista con 15 años y conoce bien la Biblia. Está casado y es escritor de novelas policíacas. James Drake. Bigote. Vive en New Jersey. Especialista en química orgánica con amplios conocimientos en literatura. Roger Halsted, calvo. Profesor de matemáticas en una escuela secundaria. Escribe la Ilíada en quintillas y todos los meses les recita una estrofa. Es miembro de los Irregulares de Baker Street. Henry Jackson, el camarero. Unos 60 años, sin arrugas. Es humilde y honrado. Entre ellos se llaman doctores y si uno es doctor de carrera le denominan doctor doctor. Para ayudarse en sus investigaciones cuentan con diccionarios, biblias y las obras de Shakespeare en su biblioteca. Comenzamos... ¿alguna pregunta? Y recuerda que puedes seguirnos en Telegram, YouTube, Instagram y X, y si este podcast te acompaña, te inspira o te gusta lo que hago, puedes hacerte fan y apoyar la nave. Tu energía mantiene viva esta aventura sonora.🚀 Aquí te dejo la página directa para apoyarme: 🍻 https://www.ivoox.com/support/552842 ¡¡Muchas gracias por todos tus comentarios y por tu apoyo!! Voz y sonido Olga Paraíso, Música epidemic sound con licencia premium autorizada para este podcast. BIO Olga Paraíso: https://instabio.cc/Hleidas 🖤 PLAYLIST EL CLUB DE LOS VIUDOS NEGROS EN Ivoox https://go.ivoox.com/bk/11290149 Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

FOLLOW RICHARD Website: https://www.strangeplanet.ca YouTube: @strangeplanetradio Instagram: @richardsyrettstrangeplanet TikTok: @therealstrangeplanet EP. #1293 Machines That Dreamed Us First: How Science Fiction Built the Future We Now Live Tonight, in Part Two of our four-part series, we plunge into the mechanical heart of science fiction—and the chilling realization that our world of drones, algorithms, and AI was imagined long before it was built. From Čapek's enslaved robots to Asimov's hopeful laws, from Wells's remote-controlled war machines to Orwell's watchful screens, the blueprints were drawn in stories. Professor Mark Brake reveals how these fictions didn't just predict the future—they scripted it. Are we masters of our creations, or have the machines we dreamed up already begun reshaping humanity itself? The déjà vu is real. The reckoning is now. GUEST: Professor Mark Brake is a leading science communicator and author exploring the hidden feedback loop between imagination and innovation. He is the author of FutureWorld: Where Science Fiction Becomes Science and numerous bestselling books examining the real science behind Star Wars, superheroes, time travel, and the multiverse. Known for translating complex ideas into gripping narratives, Brake argues that science fiction doesn't merely entertain — it quietly shapes the laboratories, technologies, and futures we eventually inhabit. LINKS: https://www.instagram.com/profmbrake BOOKS: FutureWorld: Where Science Fiction Becomes Science The Science of Star Wars The Science of Harry Potter The Science of Star Trek The Science of Doctor Who The Science of Jurassic World The Science of James Bond The Science of Sherlock The Science of The Beatles The Science of Super Heroes SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS!!! GHOSTBED GhostBed is a family-run company, founded and still led by real manufacturing experts with more than 20 years of mattress-making experience. They're not marketers chasing trends. They're craftsmen focused on building quality you can feel, night after night. Every GhostBed mattress is designed with premium materials, proven cooling technology, and their exclusive ProCore™ layer—a targeted support system that reinforces the center of the mattress where your body's heaviest. It helps keep your spine aligned and your back supported while you sleep. Right now, during GhostBed's Holiday Sale, you can get 25% off sitewide for a limited time. Just go to GhostBed.com/strangeplanet and use promo code STRANGEPLANET at checkout. That's GhostBed.com/strangeplanet, promo code STRANGEPLANET. Upgrade your sleep with GhostBed—the makers of The Coolest Beds in the World™. Some exclusions apply, see site for details. FOUND – Smarter banking for your business Take back control of your business today. Open a Found account for FREE at Found dot com. That's F-O-U-N-D dot com. Found is a financial technology company, not a bank. Banking services are provided by Lead Bank, Member FDIC. Join the hundreds of thousands who've already streamlined their finances with Found. HIMS - Making Healthy and Happy Easy to Achieve Sexual Health, Hair Loss, Mental Health, Weight Management START YOUR FREE ONLINE VISIT TODAY - ⁠HIMS dot com slash STRANGE⁠ ⁠https://www.HIMS.com/strange⁠ MINT MOBILE Premium Wireless - $15 per month. No Stores. No Salespeople. JUST SAVINGS Ready to say yes to saying no? Make the switch at MINT MOBILE dot com slash STRANGEPLANET. That's MINT MOBILE dot com slash STRANGEPLANET BECOME A PREMIUM SUBSCRIBER!!!⁠ ⁠https://strangeplanet.supportingcast.fm⁠ Three monthly subscriptions to choose from. Commercial Free Listening, Bonus Episodes and a Subscription to my monthly newsletter, InnerSanctum. Visit ⁠https://strangeplanet.supportingcast.fm⁠ Use the discount code "Planet" to receive $5 OFF off any subscription. We and our partners use cookies to personalize your experience, to show you ads based on your interests, and for measurement and analytics purposes. By using our w Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://strangeplanet.supportingcast.fm/

La señora astronauta de marte, de Mary Robinette Kowal. Una historia muy emotiva, escrita con gran sensibilidad acerca del último viaje espacial de una mujer madura astronauta. Mary Robinette Kowal es autora del universo Lady Astronaut y de novelas de fantasía histórica: la serie Glamourist Histories y Ghost Talkers. Es miembro del galardonado podcast Writing Excuses y ha recibido el premio Astounding a la mejor escritora novel, cuatro premios Hugo, el premio RT Reviews a la mejor novela de fantasía, los premios Nebula y Locus. Sus historias han aparecido en Strange Horizons, Asimov's, varias antologías de Year's Best y en sus colecciones Word Puppets y Scenting the Dark and Other Stories. Su novela Calculating Stars es una de las dieciocho novelas que han ganado los premios Hugo, Nebula y Locus en un solo año. Mary Robinette vive en Nashville con su marido Rob y más de una docena de máquinas de escribir manuales. Visite https://maryrobinettekowal.com/ Todos sus libros disponibles en Amazon. Ilustración by Mike Hill Música epidemic Sound con licencia premium para este podcast Dusk and Dawn /melody Johannes Bornlof The Stone Sea /instruments Jay Taylos Trapped Ruiqi Zhao What Once Was Gavin luke Voz y sonido Olga Paraíso Únete a quienes sostienen la nave de Historias para ser leídas y hazte fan de este podcast. Con tu apoyo, seguimos tatuando palabras en la noche para que ninguna historia se pierda ni ningún silencio quede intacto. 🖤Aquí te dejo la página directa para apoyarme: 🍻 https://www.ivoox.com/support/552842 🖤 Gracias por escuchar. BIO OLGA PARAÍSO https://instabio.cc/Hleidas Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Send us a textCreacion de Valor Transgeneracional = Masa x Coordinacion x Energia² Entre la psicohistoria y la empresa familiar… hay estructuras que solo se revelan cuando alguien sabe dónde mirar.Una ecuación donde masa, coordinación y energía revelan, con una claridad sorprendente, lo que antes parecía imposible de explicar.Einstein (1879–1955) intuyó que una ecuación podía capturar la esencia del universo. Asimov (1920–1992) imaginó, desde su psicohistoria, que también podía capturar el futuro.Jiang, cuya lectura de sistemas complejos lo llevó a finales de 2023 a anticipar el ataque entre Israel e Irán, reinterpretó esta lógica para comprender comportamientos humanos y dinámicas sociales de gran escala.Habbershon, desde comienzos de los años 2000, llevó esta mirada al terreno del valor transgeneracional,dando fundamento académico a cómo las familias crean —y sostienen— su ventaja.Y Gonzalo Jiménez Seminario nos regala para el 2026  su hallazgo más elegante y una fórmula sencilla capaz de abarcar la complejidad de la familia empresaria.Un gran cierre del 2025. e² para el 2026!!Consejo de Familia, el PODCAST donde hilamos fino los dilemas de las familias empresarias.

Bilimkurgu neden önyargılarla boğuşuyor, neden sinema uyarlamaları aksiyondan ibaret? Bu soruyla başladıktan sonra, Asimov'un Vakıf Serisine dalıyoruz. Dergilerde çıkan orijinal hikayeleri esas alarak, ilk kitabın tamamını tartışacağız. (Psikotarihçiler, Ansiklopediciler, Başkanlar, Tüccar Prensler). Bonus olarak "My Name is Legion" isimli bir hikaye ve her zamanki entel kuntel eklemeler var. Kaynaklara bakmayı unutmayınız. İyi Pazarlar Konular: (00:00) Bilimkurgu neden ciddiye alınmadı (04:31 ) Ansiklopediciler (08:50) Unutulan Teknolojiler (Apollo, Roma Betonu) (13:35) Minority Report (17:01) I am Legion (19:48) Başkanlar (Dizgin ve Eyer) (29:21) Tüccarlar (Wedge) (31:01) Tüccar Prensler (Big and Small) (34:18) Büyük İllüzyon (1909) (39:08) Polisiye formatı (40:37) Psikotarihçiler Kaynaklar: Foundation Part II: The Encyclopedists May 1942, pages 38-53 (Foundation) Foundation Part III: The Mayors June 1942, pages 9-30 (Bridle and Saddle) Foundation Part V: The Merchant Princes August 1944, pages 7-54 (The Big and the Little) Foundation Part IV: The Traders October 1944, pages 64-79 (The Wedge) My Name is Legion (1942) Büyük İllüzyon (1909) Minority Report (2002) --- Bu bölüm reklam içermektedir

Hello San Francisco - we're arrived for Microsoft Ignite 2025! The #CloudRealities podcast team has landed this week in San Francisco, we're bringing you the best updates right from the heart of the event. Join us to connect AI at scale, cloud modernization, and secure innovation—empowering organizations to become AI-first. Plus, we'll keep you updated on all the latest news and juicy gossip. Dave and Esmee continue their conversation with Rob Lefferts, CVP Threat Protection about the key security announcements and explore how we leverage agents to protect, defend, and respond at AI speed.  TLDR00:50 – Introduction to Rob Lefferts01:40 – Keynote highlights and insights from the Expo floor03:19 – In-depth conversation with Rob on why security is critical in the era of AI22:53 – Favorite IT-themed movie linked to the Asimov's principles and the Louvre password  GuestRob Lefferts: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-lefferts/ HostsDave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/Esmee van de Giessen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/esmeevandegiessen/Rob Kernahan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-kernahan/ ProductionMarcel van der Burg: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcel-vd-burg/Dave Chapman: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chapmandr/ SoundBen Corbett: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-corbett-3b6a11135/Louis Corbett:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/louis-corbett-087250264/ 'Cloud Realities' is an original podcast from Capgemini

From Jeffy’s Online Books to everything from A to Z, Amazon.com is an empire amongst empires. Bezos created something remarkable. Dave Young: Welcome to the Empire Builders Podcast, teaching business owners the not-so-secret techniques that took famous businesses from mom-and-pop to major brands. Stephen Semple is a marketing consultant, story collector, and storyteller. I’m Stephen’s sidekick and business partner, Dave Young. Before we get into today’s episode, a word from our sponsor, which is… Well, it’s us, but we’re highlighting ads we’ve written and produced for our clients. So here’s one of those. [Pinpoint Payments Ad] Dave Young: Ding-dong. Okay. Well, I was making noises there as we started. Welcome to the Empire Builders Podcast. Dave Young here alongside Stephen Semple, and we’re talking about empires. I mean, businesses that started tiny and grew into behemoths, in this case, and often… Well, every time what we do is we let the countdown to the recording start, and then Stephen whispers in my ear today’s topic, and we see if I recognize it. Maybe perhaps I’ve heard of them. And today, he just said one word, Amazon. And I’m like, “Is that a river?” I mean, that’s what we all said back in the day when Jeff Bezos started it- Stephen Semple: Yes. Dave Young: … was, “Really, you named it after a river in South America? What are you thinking? What’s wrong with you?” But I guess he proved them wrong. Stephen Semple: What you’re going to discover, wasn’t actually the first name. Dave Young: Oh, cool. They started with a different name and then switched to Amazon. Stephen Semple: Jeffy’s Online Books? Dave Young: Well, and here’s the thing. We’re 200-and-some-odd episodes in, and we’ve managed to hold off not covering Amazon. That’s a good point. Yeah. Stephen Semple: And I resisted myself, because basically everything that’s to be said about Amazon has probably been said, but I did come across a couple of interesting little tidbits that we’re going to focus on- Dave Young: Oh, cool. Stephen Semple: … that I hope gives a little bit different picture to Amazon than the other things, people. Look, Amazon is a massive success, has changed the way the world is, was unbelievably innovative and forward-thinking. And today, Amazon does like 8,000 orders a minute. Dave Young: A minute? Stephen Semple: A minute. Dave Young: Unbelievable. Stephen Semple: Crazy, isn’t it? Dave Young: Mm-hmm. Stephen Semple: And Jeff Bezos is one of the richest men in the world, and Amazon is just a monster out there. But here’s the thing that’s also really interesting. Jeff Bezos did not come from technology or retail. And how often have we seen this over and over and over again, that these businesses are built by people from outside the industry? That is like 9 out of 10, or probably even more like 99 out of 100. He was an investment guy that was working in the early ’90s on Wall Street. That’s what he was doing. And he was making big bucks doing research in the technology space. So he was working in the space, but he wasn’t a tech guy or a retail guy. And he comes across this report about growth in the internet space. And he literally… It boggles his mind. He’s working away in Wall Street, comes across this report, and it says, the space is growing at 2300%. And he literally, as the story goes, picks up the phone, calls the analyst, and said, “There’s a typo here.” And they were like, “No, this is how it’s growing.” And he was like, “Oh my God.” Now, let’s think about this for a moment, because it’s easy to forget this. 1989 is when the first online transaction on the World Wide Web happened. Dave Young: I wouldn’t have thought it was even that long ago, but yeah. Stephen Semple: Yeah, yeah, but it was, like, one- Dave Young: Yeah. It’s ancient history now, but… Stephen Semple: We forget, we forget how much the growth is. And if you really want to go back, probably the best documentation of the growth we’ve had is episode 227 on AOL. Because AOL was really a driver of internet growth. It really was. It was really one of the pioneers that took people online. So to be looking at these things in the early ’90s and go, “Hey, I see growth in online retail,” that’s really forward-thinking. I’ve got to give Bezos credit. Not a lot of people were thinking that way. So he looks at this growth and he says, “There’s got to be potential to do a business in this space.” And that’s where he starts off. We’ve got to do a business in this space. So he does brainstorming ideas with his wife at the time, McKinsey, and they look at investment sites, they look at advice sites, but he decides it needs to be a store, because people shop every day. Everyone. It’s mass- Dave Young: An online store, yeah. Stephen Semple: It’s mass, it’s something we do all the time, it’s habitual, and he doesn’t want to do something that’s a niche. And it has no boundaries, and ideally you could remove a lot of the friction in shopping. But he realizes he can’t start that way. This is the other part where I thought he was brilliant. His vision was always online store, but he knew you can’t start as an online store. You can’t become known for being an online store. It’s too big. You need to pick one thing. Dave Young: But he had that vision long before he started selling books. Stephen Semple: The goal was to sell everything. Dave Young: Everything. Stephen Semple: But he knew that’s not where you start. And this is what I find interesting. It’s amazing how many startups I talk about have these massive visions, and it’s too big. You can have that massive vision, but you got to still start with something smaller. And that starting something smaller doesn’t limit you. Jeff Bezos has proven that. So he steps back in this point. He’s trying to figure out, “Well, what’s the one thing I want to do?” And he ordered a book called Cyberdreams by Asimov, and it took two weeks to arrive and arrived damaged. And the ordering process was a bit of a pain in the neck. And he went, “You know what? There’s an opportunity to do better here.” And at the time, the book business is very fragmented. There’s two big players, Barnes & Noble, and Borders. But they combined are only 25% of book sales. So still, most book sales are being done by little retailers. So it’s dominated by all sorts of little players, and they don’t do a good job of shipping books. So he says, “There’s the opportunity. Books is the opportunity.” He quits Wall Street where he is making like a million bucks a year, moves to Seattle to start the business, and he moves to Seattle because University of Washington at the time has got basically the top computer engineering school, Microsoft is there, so there’s lots of good engineers available. Dave Young: Gotcha. Stephen Semple: Hires a programmer, Shel Kaphan. And the first name of the company was not Amazon. It was Cadabra, as in- Dave Young: Cadabra. Abra. Stephen Semple: As in “Abracadabra, your book arrives.” Dave Young: Yeah. Stephen Semple: Name didn’t work well. People thought it was… Dave Young: Magic supplies, or- Stephen Semple: No. Well, they actually mistake it, Cadabra for cadaver. Dave Young: Yeah, that’s not good either, now that I think about it. Stephen Semple: So they needed a new name, and they had very much still the phone book mentality. Remember how everybody wanted to be listed first in the phone book? Dave Young: Sure. You start with an A. Stephen Semple: So you start with an A, and the first name that kind of came along that they thought they could do anything with was Amazon. Okay, yeah. You know, it’s [inaudible 00:08:32] a river, all this other stuff. So they just went, “Sure, let’s do Amazon. We can make that work.” Dave Young: Well, and the smart thing is he picked a… unless I’m wrong, he picked one word as the name. Stephen Semple: Yes. Dave Young: It wasn’t Amazon Booksellers. Stephen Semple: No, Amazon. Dave Young: Amazon Online Booksellers. Stephen Semple: Right, because he still had the vision — Dave Young: That’s limiting. Yeah. Stephen Semple: Right, because he still had the vision, “I’m going to do more than this, but I need to start with one thing.” So Amazon. Dave Young: So that vision dictates you find a name that is big enough to handle the vision. Stephen Semple: Yes. World’s biggest river, right? So it’s June 16th, 1995, Amazon goes live. They wanted to make it simple and easy to order books, and what would happen is they will get the sale, then they turn around and buy the book from the wholesaler, repackage the book, and ship it out to you. So they basically had no inventory. Dave Young: I was going to say, you could test the whole idea by just setting up your office near a brick and mortar bookstore and walking over and buying the book. Stephen Semple: Instead, they were buying the wholesale. Dave Young: Drop it in the mail. But they’re buying from wholesale, so there’s a little profit in it for them. That’s good. Stephen Semple: Yep. So the book would come in, they would repack it, ship it to the customer. So really, at first they had no physical inventory, but they had a list of a million books. They could basically sell any book that they could get from a wholesaler. And Amazon rolls out with this claim. They have the Earth’s biggest bookstore, which is really crazy. Any book store could claim that, because they all had access to the same million books. But I also love… There was a little bit of an unusual wording here. Dave Young: Stay tuned. We’re going to wrap up this story and tell you how to apply this lesson to your business right after this. [Using Stories To Sell Ad] Dave Young: Let’s pick up our story where we left off, and trust me, you haven’t missed a thing. Stephen Semple: I also love, there was a little bit of an unusual wording here, because you sort of expect it to be the world’s biggest bookstore, rather than the Earth’s biggest bookstore. Dave Young: Oh yeah, that’s a good point. Yeah. Stephen Semple: Right? And I think that really, again, the slightly unusual wording that fit but doesn’t fit sort of makes things stand out a little bit more. The first week, they do 13,000 in sales. Everybody’s working, boxing books, including Bezos in the early days, and they’re struggling to keep up. Like, it’s working. Then they get a call from Yahoo. So remember, at the time, Yahoo is the monster. Mid-’90s, Yahoo is the leading search engine by a country mile. And Yahoo had this thing that they would do. Each week, they would feature the hottest websites on their landing page. And they give Amazon a call and they say, “Hey, would you like to be featured?” Now, they’re struggling to keep up. Bezos says, “Yep. Keep the pedal to the metal.” So Amazon’s already behind in orders, but they go for it, because the whole idea is get big fast. In a month, they’ve got orders from all 50 states, 25 countries, but they don’t have the infrastructure to keep up, and they’re operating at a loss and growing. So in 1996, they arrange for $8 million investment and they start hiring and updating infrastructure. Now, this point, they get the attention of Barnes & Noble. Remember, Barnes & Noble is the biggest retailer at this time. The CEO meets with them, and he’s known as being kind of a bit of a ruthless guy. He tells Jeff that Barnes & Noble is going to launch their site and it’s going to kill them. So the alternative is sell to Barnes & Noble. Barnes & Noble basically says, “Bezos, we’re going to bury you.” Bezos says, “No.” But here’s where Bezos is smart. Basically, Barnes & Noble tipped their hand. So in May, 1997, Barnes & Noble launches their site, and it’s not bad, and it’s getting better, but the heads-up made Bezos realize he needed the capital to compete. So he had also arranged to go public. So when Barnes & Noble launched their site, Bezos went public, literally same month, May, ’97. And he raises $54 million. But what he realizes, to win, he now needs to stock inventory and do it quicker than Barnes & Noble. So he starts building warehouses. Then, what is the next natural thing to add to books? Movies, and music. Remember? Dave Young: Yeah, I’m just… Stephen Semple: Right, because movies were DVD, and music was CDs, right? Nice, natural add-on. Dave Young: And you’ve already got people competing in that space. Stephen Semple: Yes. Dave Young: You’ve got places that are selling CDs and shipping you movies, like Netflix. Stephen Semple: Yeah. Dave Young: Yeah. Stephen Semple: So it’s 1999, and he grows from 610 million to 1.6 billion, 170% growth with the addition of that. Now, here’s the problem. The dot-com bubble bursts, and lots of businesses fail. Investors are switching their focus away from growth. You know how there was that whole thing, burn rate, burn rate, burn rate, doesn’t matter, you don’t need to be profitable. Now all of a sudden, you got to be profitable. And Amazon’s still losing money. And Bezos is told by the board that he needs to make money, he needs to raise prices. This is what the board says. “Dude, you’re raising prices.” What does Bezos do? Announces he’s lowering prices across the board by 30% on everything. He stands against the board, because he says, “This is my opportunity to crush the competition and win.” It’s really interesting, the Monday Morning Memo this week, from Roy H. Williams. So we need to note, it’s October 6th, so any listeners should go back, mondaymorningmemo.com, October 6th. Read that because it’s really interesting what Roy wrote this morning. It’s write down this whole idea, that when things slow down, this is when the little guy can crush the big guys. Dave Young: The big guy, yeah. Stephen Semple: This is what he did. Bezos stood against the board, board, said, “Raise prices,” Bezos said, “No, this is my opportunity to put the foot down, put the hammer down, and win.” And that’s what he did. And guess what? Not only that, few quarters after doing that, they hit profitability for the first time, because they exploded the transactions. They killed their competitors in that moment. So I think the parts that came across interesting for me that I wanted to talk about when it comes to Amazon is this whole idea of he knew he wanted to do something big, but he knew he couldn’t start large. So he spent a lot of time thinking about what’s the natural thing for me to start with? And he looked for something that was fragmented, then it’s easy to go in, that was not being done well, but was already a fairly regular purchase, so he did books. And then in terms of the expansion, what’s something that has very similar characteristics to books? Movies, music. Dave Young: That people are already accustomed to purchasing online. Stephen Semple: Correct. Dave Young: And startup people will talk about the minimum viable product, or minimum viable service, right? Stephen Semple: Yes. Dave Young: And that’s sort of this. Stephen Semple: It is sort of, because he did it with no inventory. Dave Young: Sort of, but it’s not quite, though. Stephen Semple: Not quite. Dave Young: Because he wasn’t trying to make the minimum viable product or service. He was trying to find the entry path to something much, much bigger. Stephen Semple: Correct. Dave Young: When you have this idea for a business that, oh, we’re going to sell this thing online, or we’re going to do this service, and you just… When you think about minimum viable product, you’re forced to think small, and I think in some cases the risk is that you trim back that big vision. Stephen Semple: Yeah. He managed to hold- Dave Young: And you lose it. Stephen Semple: So there’s two areas where Bezos really showed his brilliance. And look, he’s shown his brilliance in so many different things. There’s whole books that have been written around his philosophies and whatnot. But these were the two that I thought have not been talked about before that I think we can all learn from as entrepreneurs, is he managed to hold those two ideas in his head, the long-term vision and the short-term thing he needed to do to get started. And he didn’t have the one limit the other. One, he was very clear, this one is the pathway to the other. But he was also okay to be known initially as a bookseller. He was fine with that. But he was able to hold those two contradictory ideas in his head and not sacrifice one for the other. And I think you’re right. A lot of people struggle with that, and he was brilliant at that. Dave Young: He was focused on it. Stephen Semple: He never lost sight of it. Dave Young: That’s a really good take on Amazon. I love this one. Stephen Semple: The other part is, and I think it’s particularly relevant for where we are today, is because there’s a lot of talk of consumer confidence slipping and things along that lines, is that he stood against his board. His board was like, “Okay, the tune of the day is we got to get profitable. You have to raise prices.” And what he knew is if he raised prices, this idea wasn’t going to work. And look, I’m not normally one saying, “Go lower prices. Go lower prices. Go lower prices.” But strategically, here’s what he knew at this point. His competitors were failing, his competitors were not making money, and his competitors had no more access to capital. This was the opportunity to destroy his online competitors. Dave Young: Yeah. Stephen Semple: The final nail… This is my opportunity to put my foot on their throat and win. Normally, a lowering a prices is not going to do that, but strategically in that moment, strategically in that moment, it was going to crush the competition. Dave Young: And he didn’t change the vision of the company to always be the low-cost supplier, right? It’s, like, that’s changed now. Stephen Semple: Right. Yes. Dave Young: You may find it for less on Amazon, but you may not. He didn’t make it as a strategy of focus on the company. Again, he made it as strategic decision for competition reasons. Stephen Semple: Correct. Dave Young: Which is what Walmart did, right? Stephen Semple: Correct. Dave Young: It’s just a similar story that’s not in the brick-and-mortar space. I love hearing this story. Stephen Semple: Yeah. And he took advantage of the moment. He saw that there’s this moment where this will work. There’s this moment in time where this will work, and I’m going to take advantage of this moment. Dave Young: And he became incredibly rich. Stephen Semple: Yes. Dave Young: Still is. And here’s, to me, the happy ending, okay? When he got divorced, his ex-wife got half of it, half of… I don’t know, half of Amazon, but half of all the money, at least, and she’s been given it away to charities and helping all kinds of people, not buying yachts. Stephen Semple: And look, and he didn’t fight it. He recognized her role. Dave Young: Yeah, yeah. Oh, sure. Stephen Semple: He recognized her role. Dave Young: No, [inaudible 00:19:52] full credit for that. Stephen Semple: It was not one of these drawn-out-in-court battles, because we didn’t hear anything about it. Dave Young: Yeah, and- Stephen Semple: So he did the right thing. Dave Young: Yeah, I think so. And she’s doing a great thing. Stephen Semple: Yes. Dave Young: Right? She’s clearly thought, well, yeah, “I can help a lot of people , still live a fantastic life.” Stephen Semple: I’d been resisting doing Amazon, although I felt like it’s hard to have a podcast like this and not talk about Amazon. Dave Young: It is. Stephen Semple: But I wanted to find a couple of things that I think just were a little bit different take, and a couple of things that we can really take away as business owners. And I like to call it the thin edge of the wedge strategy. What’s that starting point which you identified, that then you can pivot to the larger thing. And also, in the tough times, that’s your opportunity to become the leader. Dave Young: Okay. Well, that’s it for the giant, Amazon. Stephen Semple: Yep. Dave Young: You’re talking about an empire. Stephen Semple: Yeah. Dave Young: Next week, as marketers, we’ll be back to talking about the Apple 1984 commercial. No, we won’t. Thank you, Stephen. Stephen Semple: Thanks, David. Dave Young: Thanks for listening to the podcast. Please share us, subscribe on your favorite podcast app, and leave us a big, fat, juicy five-star rating and review at Apple Podcasts. And if you’d like to schedule your own 90-minute empire-building session, you can do it at empirebuildingprogram.com.

Enjoy a 35-minute reading of one of sci-fi author and scientist Isaac Asimov's greatest stories.PDF of "The Last Question"Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/thethinkingatheist--3270347/support.

🚀 'El Club de los Viudos Negros', de Asimov. CENA DE noviembre 🍷🍰 📍 Ristorante Casa Milano – Milano, Italia 🧭 Coordenadas: 45°28'19.8"N 9°12'06.4"E En "Temprano, un domingo por la mañana" investigan el asesinato de la hermana de Mario. Isaac Asimov los creó como un homenaje al placer de conversar, al arte de observar y a la deliciosa costumbre de no quedarse con la primera respuesta. Acomódate. El vino está servido. La cena va a comenzar. Y tú… Tú también estás invitado. Un círculo discreto de seis caballeros que se reúnen una vez al mes, siempre en el mismo restaurante, siempre en la misma mesa, y siempre con una única regla: cada cena debe tener un invitado, y ese invitado debe estar dispuesto a hablar y a ser interrogado. 🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕸 Los Viudos Negros son un club de seis hombres que se reúnen una vez al mes en un reservado del restaurante Milano de Nueva York. Cada noche uno de ellos preside el encuentro y tiene el derecho de llevar un invitado, al que interrogan. Al principio sólo se reunían para comer y conversar pero últimamente uno de ellos plantea algún tipo de problema o delito. Los miembros del club buscan respuestas complejas a los enigmas planteados y luego Henry, el camarero, descubre la simple verdad. El club está formado por:🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷 Geoffrey Avalon, Jeff. Alto y delgado, espesas cejas negras, bigote recortado y barbita gris. Fue oficial durante la II Guerra Mundial y trabaja como abogado en derecho patentario. Mario Gonzalo, pintor y gran artista. Thomas Trumbull. Rostro moreno y arrugado, permanentemente descontento. Experto en códigos, alto consejero del gobierno. Emmanuel Rubin, Manny. Bajito, mide 1,55, barba rala, lentes gruesos. Fue predicador adventista con 15 años y conoce bien la Biblia. Está casado y es escritor de novelas policíacas. James Drake. Bigote. Vive en New Jersey. Especialista en química orgánica con amplios conocimientos en literatura. Roger Halsted, calvo. Profesor de matemáticas en una escuela secundaria. Escribe la Ilíada en quintillas y todos los meses les recita una estrofa. Es miembro de los Irregulares de Baker Street. Henry Jackson, el camarero. Unos 60 años, sin arrugas. Es humilde y honrado. Entre ellos se llaman doctores y si uno es doctor de carrera le denominan doctor doctor. Para ayudarse en sus investigaciones cuentan con diccionarios, biblias y las obras de Shakespeare en su biblioteca. Comenzamos... ¿alguna pregunta? Y recuerda que puedes seguirnos en Telegram, YouTube, Instagram y X, y si este podcast te acompaña, te inspira o te gusta lo que hago, puedes hacerte fan y apoyar la nave. Tu energía mantiene viva esta aventura sonora.🚀 Aquí te dejo la página directa para apoyarme: 🍻 https://www.ivoox.com/support/552842 ¡¡Muchas gracias por todos tus comentarios y por tu apoyo!! Voz y sonido Olga Paraíso, Música epidemic sound con licencia premium autorizada para este podcast. BIO Olga Paraíso: https://instabio.cc/Hleidas 🖤 PLAYLIST EL CLUB DE LOS VIUDOS NEGROS EN Ivoox https://go.ivoox.com/bk/11290149 Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Is love just control in disguise? Season 3 of Foundation raises the stakes with shocking betrayals, the fall of empire, and a chilling twist on Asimov's Mule. Jeff Haecker, Thomas Salerno, and Patrick Mason question what truly drives humanity. The post The Secrets of Foundation, Season 3 appeared first on StarQuest Media.

Zac and Phil go deep on Magic: The Gathering's growing obsession with outside IPs, asking the big question — when did “nods” become “crossovers”?In this episode, they explore how Magic evolved from subtle flavor callbacks (like Theros's Greek myth inspiration or Arabian Nights' literary roots) to full-on Universes Beyond product lines. The conversation spans design philosophy, flavor theory, and even a little literary criticism — all centered on why Magic feels different now.From Avatar: The Last Airbender to Spider-Man and beyond, the guys debate what makes some collaborations work and others feel… off. Is it art style? Setting? Narrative tone? Or is it that Magic used to suggest connections rather than define them?

If money is supposed to make you happy, then why do tech billionaires like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen seem so miserably angry? That's the question at the heart of Jacob Silverman's new book, Gilded Rage, an expose of Silicon Valley's angry plutocracy. The weird thing is that a lot of these billionaires behave little differently from the apoplectic lumpen commentariat on X or Reddit. Sure, they might own X, but they share all the right-wing conspiracy theories infecting the online mob - from trollish racism and anti-semitism to a bro style paranoia about female power. According to Silverman, their rage is a form of exhaustion with the world itself. These men don't just want to own everything—they want to exit society entirely, by inventing new cities, buying private islands, and founding Martian colonies. Unlike the Gilded Age robber barons who happily built universities and libraries, today's miserable tech elites sit in their palatial basements and rage against society. Maybe we should take away their money. It might cheer them up. 1. The Radicalization is Real and Different This isn't just typical Silicon Valley disruption rhetoric. Silverman argues we're witnessing an unprecedented fusion of corporate power and government under Trump, with tech CEOs like Musk acting as virtual co-candidates rather than mere donors. Unlike previous eras of money in politics, this represents CEOs directly occupying the political stage.2. Childhood Trauma Shapes Billionaire Rage Musk's abusive upbringing in apartheid South Africa, Thiel's grievances dating back to Stanford, and personal family conflicts (like Musk's estrangement from his trans daughter) have profoundly shaped these men's worldviews. Their “woke mind virus” obsession often traces directly to feeling their children have been turned against them by progressive institutions.3. The Apartheid Connection Matters The South African origins of key PayPal mafia members—Musk, Thiel, and David Sacks—isn't coincidental. Growing up in a “highly engineered chauvinist racist society” has influenced their authoritarian instincts, comfort with hierarchy, and reactionary politics. Musk's companies have faced multiple racial discrimination lawsuits, suggesting these patterns persist.4. They're Literary Fundamentalists, Not Intellectuals These billionaires obsessively reference science fiction and fantasy (Musk's Asimov fixation, Thiel's endless Tolkien companies), but they read these works as blueprints rather than allegories. They lack humor, self-reflection, and genuine intellectual growth—Thiel still complains about the same grievances from his 1995 book “The Diversity Myth.”5. There's No Liberal Tech Counterweight Don't expect Tim Cook, Reid Hoffman, or other supposedly progressive tech leaders to mount serious opposition. Most are opportunists going along to get along, while others have their own scandals (Hoffman's Epstein connections). The choice isn't between left and right tech elites, but between an active right-wing faction and a passive center-right majority.Keen On America is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

A brilliant but reckless scientist unlocks the power to transmit matter through electricity—only to find himself reborn as a talking head in a museum display. His greatest invention has left him literally a man without a body. The Man Without A Body by Edward Page Mitchell. That's next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast.The maiden voyage of our newsletter Lost Sci-Fi Weekly blasted off a few days ago, and Issue #2 went out this morning. We did have a minor glitch with the signup form but it's been repaired.Every issue beams free vintage sci-fi stories straight to your inbox—no ads, no intros. just pure story goodness.But beware, the download links self-destruct when the next issue goes out. We accidentally set the timer to “black hole speed” the first time, so the link vanished faster than a spaceship crewman who says, ‘I'll go check that strange noise.'”. Our bad. The clock has been reset—you've got one more week to grab the goods.Just click the link in the description or warp over to LostSciFi.com and join in on the fun.Newsletter - https://lostscifi.com/free/Edward Page Mitchell is one of the great forgotten architects of early science fiction—an author who was doing things in the 1870s and 1880s that the genre wouldn't “officially” discover for decades. Time travel, teleportation, cybernetics, artificial intelligence… Mitchell wrote it all before most people even had electricity in their homes.His stories appeared in newspapers, not magazines, which is one reason his name slipped through the cracks of history. But make no mistake—long before Verne, Wells, or Asimov were household names, Edward Page Mitchell was already imagining the impossible and treating it as everyday fact.First published in The New York Sun on March 25, 1877, this is one of his most remarkable tales—equal parts eerie, inventive, and shockingly modern for its era, The Man Without A Body by Edward Page Mitchell…Next on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast, An unsuspecting family hosts Earth's first Martian visitor… only to discover he's been locked in their upstairs bathroom for hours. Curiosity turns into panic as they wonder what—exactly—he's doing in there. What's he doing in there? By Fritz Leiber.☕ Buy Me a Coffee https://www.buymeacoffee.com/scottsVFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/TheLostSciFiPodcastTwitter - https://x.com/LostSciFiPodInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/lostscifiguy❤️ ❤️ Thanks to All Our Listeners Who Bought Us a Coffee$200 Someone$100 Tony from the Future$75 James Van Maanenberg$50 MizzBassie, Anonymous Listener$25 Someone, Eaten by a Grue, Jeff Lussenden, Fred Sieber, Anne, Craig Hamilton, Dave Wiseman, Bromite Thrip, Marwin de Haan, Future Space Engineer, Fressie, Kevin Eckert, Stephen Kagan, James Van Maanenberg, Irma Stolfo, Josh Jennings, Leber8tr, Conrad Chaffee, Anonymous Listener$15 Every Month Someone$15 Someone, Carolyn Guthleben, Patrick McLendon, Curious Jon, Buz C., Fressie, Anonymous Listener$10 Anonymous Listener$5 Every Month Eaten by a Grue$5 Denis Kalinin, Timothy Buckley, Andre'a, Martin Brown, Ron McFarlan, Tif Love, Chrystene, Richard Hoffman, Anonymous ListenerPlease participate in our podcast survey https://podcastsurvey.typeform.com/to/gNLcxQlk Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Roma İmparatorluğu'nun Gerileyiş ve Çöküş Tarihi'den (Gibbon) esinlenen genç bir yazar, daha önce kimsenin cesaret edemediği kadar büyük ölçekte bir hikaye hayal etti. Onbinlerce yıla ve milyonlarca gezegene yayılan bir imparatorluğun çöküşünü ve ardından gelecek karanlık çağları önceden görebilseydiniz, ne yapardınız? Bilimkurgu tarihinin en önemli eserlerinden biri hakkında, o bahaneyle de bilimkurgu tarihi ve felsefesi hakkında atıp tutacağımız bir mini-seri. Konular: (00:00) Romayı düşünüyorum, gözlerim kapalı (03:30) Arrival ve bilimkurgunun derinliği (04:19) HG Wells ve Mary Shelley (07:20) Pulp Dönemi (09:46) Asimov'un Robot Yasaları (12:16) Vakıf fikrinin doğuşu (13:36) Psikotarih (16:56) Spengler ve Batının Çöküşü (18:46) Son Soru ve Nightfall (21:17) Ansiklopediciler (22:12) Gelecek bölüm ve Patreon Kaynaklar: Foundation / Vakıf (1951) War of the Worlds (1898) Frankenstein (1818) Roma İmparatorluğu'nun Gerileyiş ve Çöküş Tarihi (1776) Arrival (2016) Nightfall (1941) ve roman versiyonu (1990) Who Goes There (1938) ve The Thing (1982) Batı'nın Çöküşü (1918) --- Bu bölüm reklam içermektedir

En este episodio de La opinión de Marm hablo sobre el clásico de Isaac Asimov, Yo, Robot, centrado en los capítulos “Sentido giratorio” y “Razón”.Dos historias fascinantes donde la INTELIGENCIA ARTIFICIAL, la LÓGICA y la CONDICIÓN HUMANA se entrelazan de una forma sorprendente.Comento los momentos más destacados, las ideas que Asimov plantea sobre el pensamiento racional de los robots y cómo anticipó muchos de los dilemas que hoy seguimos debatiendo.

Send us a textA research ship crashes where no one is supposed to look, a cyborg refuses to quit after 65 years in the dark, and a billionaire prodigy turns dying children into something new. We dive into Alien: Earth season one with fresh eyes, unpacking how five corporations quietly replaced governments and why a hushed catastrophe on an island could plausibly vanish from public record. The tension isn't just xenomorphs; it's power, secrecy, and the dangerous confidence of people who think they can outsmart biology.We get personal about the tech and the ethics. Mr. Morrow's brutal focus makes cyborgs feel older and meaner than the synthetics we know, while hybrids—children's minds in synthetic bodies—force real questions about identity and consent. The Peter Pan motif reframes it all: Boy Kavalier as a twisted Peter who won't let his “lost boys” grow, and Wendy as the caretaker they choose for themselves. That angle turns set pieces into stakes. We talk Kirsh quoting Asimov's first law, then sidestepping it by redefining who counts as human; Slightly's coerced choices and Arthur's heartbreaking fate; and how canon threads might actually strengthen the corporate motive behind the Nostromo's detour.Then the world gets bigger and stranger. We break down mineral-eating organisms, a carnivorous plant that swallows victims whole, and the Eye—a sentient parasite that puppets hosts and changes the battlefield. Wendy's escalating abilities and uncanny bond with a xenomorph push the envelope, but they also highlight an old Alien truth: the tools you build to control life end up controlling you. By the finale, the power players are caged, the kids claim their names, and the island keeps its secrets. If you love sharp worldbuilding, messy ethics, and bold swings that spark debate, this is the conversation you'll want in your queue.Loved the breakdown? Follow, share with a friend who argues about canon, and drop a review to tell us what twist floored you most.Twitter handles:Project Geekology: https://twitter.com/pgeekologyAnthony's Twitter: https://twitter.com/odysseyswowDakota's Twitter: https://twitter.com/geekritique_dakInstagram:https://instagram.com/projectgeekology?igshid=1v0sits7ipq9yYouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@projectgeekologyGeekritique (Dakota):https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBwciIqOoHwIx_uXtYTSEbAAlien (1979) Explained | Timeline, Canon, and Lore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9nmyTTlMvoBetween The StatesThree friends, zero filters, endless chaos. Tune in and see what happens.Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

Cadwell Turnbull is the award-winning author of The Lesson; No Gods, No Monsters; and We Are the Crisis. His short fiction has appeared in The Verge, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Asimov's Science Fiction, and several anthologies, including The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 and The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019. His novel The Lesson won the 2020 Neukom Institute Literary Award in the debut category. The novel was also shortlisted for the VCU Cabell Award and longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Awards. His novel No Gods, No Monsters is the winner of a Lambda Award and was a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award. A Ruin, Great and Free, the stunning conclusion to the popular Convergence Saga. It has been nearly two years since the anti-monster riots. The inhabitants of Moon have been very fortunate in the intervening months. Inside their hidden monster settlement, they've found peace, even as the world outside slips into increasing unrest. Monsters are being hunted everywhere, forced back into the shadows they once tried to escape from. Other secret settlements have offered a place to hide, but how long can this half-measure against fear and hatred last? Over the course of three days, the inhabitants of Moon are tested. The Black Hand continues to search for them and the Cult of the Zsouvox wants to make Moon the last stand in their war against the Order of Asha. This is more than enough to reckon with, but the gods have also placed their sights on Moon—and they bring with them a conflict that may either save or unravel the universe itself.     Want to watch: YouTube Meisterkhan Pod (Please Subscribe)

Speculative science fiction really is a genre of its own. Some people love it, others find it pointless, but you can't deny the mental gymnastics involved in imagining the future of our societies, especially when some of those predictions turn out to be right.  In that field, there are a few writers who stand out above the rest: George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and, perhaps most famously, Isaac Asimov. Who exactly was Isaac Asimov? Did he predict a future full of robots then? What about space?To listen to the last episodes, you can click here: What is future faking? ⁠⁠Will the meat of the future be printed in 3D? Why do we see faces in inanimate objects? A Bababam Originals podcast written and realised by Joseph Chance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

BLACKSEA AUDIO PRESENTS: 2109 BLACK SUN RISING The Prequel Logs, Episode 1: Fair Start In the year 2091 the ASIMOV-1 Deep Space Probe was launched on it's journey to the Alpha Centauri region of the Galaxy. It was the first manned Space flight to another star… We now join Fleet Admiral Veers who is currently going through the court documents pertaining to Captain Dyllan Pike and his crew's historic voyage…. Credits: Script for “2109: Black Sun Rising- The Prequel Logs” written by Mat Weller, based on ideas presented in the upcoming Audio Drama “2109: Black Sun Rising” written by Bill Hollweg. Cast for Eps 1-6: Mat Weller as Dyllan Pike Gwendolyn Jensen Woodard as The Computer Jack Ward as The Ensign Joe Stofko as Fleet Admiral Veers Mark Kalita as the Solar Football League Sportscaster W. Ralph Walters as The Solar Football League Game Day Host Lothar Tuppan as The “Terra” Pitchman John Bell as The Announcer for “Reality T.V. Solar Corp. R.T.S.C.” Amanda Fitzwater as Gillian Gee “Solar Football League Game Day Weather Girl and Model” The Ratings Game Audio Drama Courtesy of P.S. Gifford and BrokenSea Audio Productions James Leeper as Contestant on “The Ratings Game” Bruce Busby as The Host on “The Ratings Game”

¡Vótame en los Premios iVoox 2025! 💡Espacio patrocinado por Repsol, porque “Cuando unimos energías, lo pasamos de miedo” www.repsol.es/experiencias 🚀 'El Club de los Viudos Negros', de Asimov. CENA DE OCTUBRE 🍷🍰 📍 Ristorante Casa Milano – Milano, Italia 🧭 Coordenadas: 45°28'19.8"N 9°12'06.4"E Isaac Asimov los creó como un homenaje al placer de conversar, al arte de observar y a la deliciosa costumbre de no quedarse con la primera respuesta. Acomódate. El vino está servido. La cena va a comenzar. Y tú… Tú también estás invitado. Un círculo discreto de seis caballeros que se reúnen una vez al mes, siempre en el mismo restaurante, siempre en la misma mesa, y siempre con una única regla: cada cena debe tener un invitado, y ese invitado debe estar dispuesto a hablar y a ser interrogado. 🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕸 Los Viudos Negros son un club de seis hombres que se reúnen una vez al mes en un reservado del restaurante Milano de Nueva York. Cada noche uno de ellos preside el encuentro y tiene el derecho de llevar un invitado, al que interrogan. Al principio sólo se reunían para comer y conversar pero últimamente uno de ellos plantea algún tipo de problema o delito. Los miembros del club buscan respuestas complejas a los enigmas planteados y luego Henry, el camarero, descubre la simple verdad. El club está formado por:🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷 Geoffrey Avalon, Jeff. Alto y delgado, espesas cejas negras, bigote recortado y barbita gris. Fue oficial durante la II Guerra Mundial y trabaja como abogado en derecho patentario. Mario Gonzalo, pintor y gran artista. Thomas Trumbull. Rostro moreno y arrugado, permanentemente descontento. Experto en códigos, alto consejero del gobierno. Emmanuel Rubin, Manny. Bajito, mide 1,55, barba rala, lentes gruesos. Fue predicador adventista con 15 años y conoce bien la Biblia. Está casado y es escritor de novelas policíacas. James Drake. Bigote. Vive en New Jersey. Especialista en química orgánica con amplios conocimientos en literatura. Roger Halsted, calvo. Profesor de matemáticas en una escuela secundaria. Escribe la Ilíada en quintillas y todos los meses les recita una estrofa. Es miembro de los Irregulares de Baker Street. Henry Jackson, el camarero. Unos 60 años, sin arrugas. Es humilde y honrado. Entre ellos se llaman doctores y si uno es doctor de carrera le denominan doctor doctor. Para ayudarse en sus investigaciones cuentan con diccionarios, biblias y las obras de Shakespeare en su biblioteca. Comenzamos... ¿alguna pregunta? Y recuerda que puedes seguirnos en Telegram, YouTube, Instagram y X, y si este podcast te acompaña, te inspira o te gusta lo que hago, puedes hacerte fan y apoyar la nave. Tu energía mantiene viva esta aventura sonora.🚀 Aquí te dejo la página directa para apoyarme: 🍻 https://www.ivoox.com/support/552842 ¡¡Muchas gracias por todos tus comentarios y por tu apoyo!! Voz y sonido Olga Paraíso, Música epidemic sound con licencia premium autorizada para este podcast. BIO Olga Paraíso: https://instabio.cc/Hleidas 🖤 PLAYLIST EL CLUB DE LOS VIUDOS NEGROS EN Ivoox https://go.ivoox.com/bk/11290149 Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

Explore game development philosophy and AI's evolving impact through Factorio creator Michal Kovařík's insights on AlphaGo's transformation of Go, current programming limitations, and the future of human-AI collaboration. Bio: Michal Kovařík is a Czech game developer best known as the co-founder and creative head of Wube Software, the studio behind the global indie hit Factorio. Under his online alias “kovarex,” Kovařík began the Factorio project in 2012 with a vision to blend his favorite game elements – trains, base-building, logistics, and automation – into a new kind of construction & management simulation. Initially funded via a modest Indiegogo campaign, Factorio blossomed from a garage project into one of Steam's top-rated games, praised for its deep automation gameplay and technical excellence. Kovařík guided Factorio through an 8-year development in open alpha/early access, cultivating a passionate player community through regular “Friday Facts” blog updates. By 2024, Factorio had sold over 4 million copies worldwide, all without ever going on sale.Michal now leads a team of ~30 in Prague, renowned for their principled business approach (no discounts, no DRM) and fan-centric development style, and he's just launched Factorio's Space Age expansion. FOLLOW ON X: @8teAPi (Ate) @steveruizok (Michal) @TurpentineMedia -- LINKS: Factorio https://www.factorio.com/ -- TIMESTAMPS: (00:00) Introduction and Factorio Discussion (07:36) AlphaGo's Impact on Go and AI Perception (18:56) Factorio's Origin Story and Team Development (30:13) AI's Current Programming Limitations (44:50) Future Predictions for AI Programming (48:31) Societal Concerns: Resource Curse and Human Value (55:21) Privacy, Surveillance, and Training Data (1:01:22) AI Alignment and Asimov's Robot Laws (1:10:00) Social Media as Proto-AI and Dopamine Manipulation (1:20:00) Programming Human Preferences and Goal Modification (1:26:00) Historical Perspective and Conclusion

'El Club de los Viudos Negros', de Asimov. CENA DE SEPTIEMBRE 🍷🍰 📍 Ristorante Casa Milano – Milano, Italia 🧭 Coordenadas: 45°28'19.8"N 9°12'06.4"E Solo la verdad y nada más que la verdad: En este caso "Sólo la verdad y nada más que la verdad", un hombre que nunca miente es acusado del robo de una caja fuerte y lo niega. 😜 Isaac Asimov los creó como un homenaje al placer de conversar, al arte de observar y a la deliciosa costumbre de no quedarse con la primera respuesta. Acomódate. El vino está servido. La cena va a comenzar. Y tú… Tú también estás invitado. Un círculo discreto de seis caballeros que se reúnen una vez al mes, siempre en el mismo restaurante, siempre en la misma mesa, y siempre con una única regla: cada cena debe tener un invitado, y ese invitado debe estar dispuesto a hablar y a ser interrogado. 🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕷🕸 Los Viudos Negros son un club de seis hombres que se reúnen una vez al mes en un reservado del restaurante Milano de Nueva York. Cada noche uno de ellos preside el encuentro y tiene el derecho de llevar un invitado, al que interrogan. Al principio sólo se reunían para comer y conversar pero últimamente uno de ellos plantea algún tipo de problema o delito. Los miembros del club buscan respuestas complejas a los enigmas planteados y luego Henry, el camarero, descubre la simple verdad. El club está formado por:🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷 Geoffrey Avalon, Jeff. Alto y delgado, espesas cejas negras, bigote recortado y barbita gris. Fue oficial durante la II Guerra Mundial y trabaja como abogado en derecho patentario. Mario Gonzalo, pintor y gran artista. Thomas Trumbull. Rostro moreno y arrugado, permanentemente descontento. Experto en códigos, alto consejero del gobierno. Emmanuel Rubin, Manny. Bajito, mide 1,55, barba rala, lentes gruesos. Fue predicador adventista con 15 años y conoce bien la Biblia. Está casado y es escritor de novelas policíacas. James Drake. Bigote. Vive en New Jersey. Especialista en química orgánica con amplios conocimientos en literatura. Roger Halsted, calvo. Profesor de matemáticas en una escuela secundaria. Escribe la Ilíada en quintillas y todos los meses les recita una estrofa. Es miembro de los Irregulares de Baker Street. Henry Jackson, el camarero. Unos 60 años, sin arrugas. Es humilde y honrado. Entre ellos se llaman doctores y si uno es doctor de carrera le denominan doctor doctor. Para ayudarse en sus investigaciones cuentan con diccionarios, biblias y las obras de Shakespeare en su biblioteca. Comenzamos... ¿alguna pregunta? Y recuerda que puedes seguirnos en Telegram, YouTube, Instagram y X, y si este podcast te acompaña, te inspira o te gusta lo que hago, puedes hacerte fan y apoyar la nave. Tu energía mantiene viva esta aventura sonora.🚀 Aquí te dejo la página directa para apoyarme: 🍻 https://www.ivoox.com/support/552842 ¡¡Muchas gracias por todos tus comentarios y por tu apoyo!! Voz y sonido Olga Paraíso, Música epidemic sound con licencia premium autorizada para este podcast. BIO Olga Paraíso: https://instabio.cc/Hleidas 🖤 PLAYLIST EL CLUB DE LOS VIUDOS NEGROS EN Ivoox https://go.ivoox.com/bk/11290149 Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

A.Ron is back with his buddy Pete Peppers to talk Foundation Season 3 one last time. Pete is a fellow Foundation book reader, so finally I have someone to go in depth with theories on where they're going in the adaptation of Asimov's work. Pete also found a collection of cut scenes in script form on Goyer's site, which is the bulk of the first bit of this podcast. Be warned, spoilers for Foundation Season 4 and on! Stay away unless you've read the Foundation Series or don't care about future spoilers! Pete Peppers YouTube Channel Pete and A.Ron's Full Non-Spoiler Wrap Up Discussion David Goyer Season 3 Interview and Behind the Scenes! Foundation's Alternate Scenes from David Goyer Baldly Go - A Star Trek: Strange New Worlds PodcastEarbursters - An Alien: Earth PodcastBald Move PulpBald Move Prestige Hey there!  Check out https://support.baldmove.com/ to find out how you can gain access to ALL of our premium content, as well as ad-free versions of the podcasts! Join the Club! Join the discussion:  Email | Discord | Reddit | Forums Follow us: Twitch | YouTube | Twitter  |  Instagram  |  Facebook Leave Us A Review on Apple Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

K. A. Teryna is an award-winning author and illustrator. She was born in two places at once, one of which is beyond the Arctic Circle. Her fiction has been translated from Russian into six languages. English translations of her stories have appeared in Asimov's, Reactor, Apex, F&SF, Podcastle, and elsewhere. Her English-language short story collection Black Hole Heart and Other Stories has been published by Fairwood Press. As of late, Chekhov the Cat has become K.A. Teryna's co-author. He's in charge of keeping her warm and firmly in her seat. K.A. Teryna's website is www.k-a-teryna.blogspot.com.The English language translation of "The Errata" by Alex Shvartsman originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, March/April 2023.Narration by: Tahereh SafaviTahereh Safavi is an improv kid and your biggest fan. She runs the Ubergroup, a 501(c)3 nonprofit providing low-cost fine arts education for adults. The Ubergroup offers university-level coursework, support, and networking for all writing-related art formats (including but not limited to: commercial and literary novels, stage and screen plays, short fiction, comics, nonfiction and academic, podcasts and webseries, picture books, poetry, IP writing, and some writing-adjacent arts such as acting and illustration) at a pace suitable for adults with full-time jobs and families. Alumni of the Ubergroup enjoy access to table reads for spec scripts, peer development of unsold work, and help editing projects under contract to meet agent/editor/producer requirements. The Ubergroup accepts writers in the English language from around the globe. Check out theubergroup.org for more.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/starshipsofa. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Helen Castor is a British historian and BBC broadcaster who left Cambridge because she wanted to write narrative history focused on individuals rather than the analytical style typical of academia. As someone interested in individual psychology and the functioning of power, Castor finds medieval England offers the perfect setting because its sophisticated power structures exist in “bare bones” without the “great apparatus of state,” bringing individual power plays into sharper relief. Her latest book, The Eagle and the Hart, exemplifies this approach by examining Richard II and Henry IV as individuals whose personal choices became constitutional precedents that echo through English history. Tyler and Helen explore what English government could and couldn't do in the 14th century, why landed nobles obeyed the king, why parliament chose to fund wars with France, whether England could have won the Hundred Years' War, the constitutional precedents set by Henry IV's deposition of Richard II, how Shakespeare's Richard II scandalized Elizabethan audiences, Richard's superb artistic taste versus Henry's lack, why Chaucer suddenly becomes possible in this period, whether Richard II's fatal trip to Ireland was like Captain Kirk beaming down to a hostile planet, how historians continue to discover new evidence about the period, how Shakespeare's Henriad influences our historical understanding, Castor's most successful work habits, what she finds fascinating about Asimov's I, Robot, the subject of her next book, and more. Read a full transcript enhanced with helpful links, or watch the full video on the new dedicated Conversations with Tyler channel. Recorded April 2nd, 2025. Help keep the show ad free by donating today! Other ways to connect Follow us on X and Instagram Follow Tyler on X Follow Helen on X Sign up for our newsletter Join our Discord Email us: cowenconvos@mercatus.gmu.edu Learn more about Conversations with Tyler and other Mercatus Center podcasts here. Photo Credit: Stuart Simpson