Table of Contents
177 relations: A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Aaron Stone, Adam Link, Alex Proyas, Aliens (film), Anagram, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Android (robot), Aphorism, Apocrypha, Arthur Hugh Clough, Artificial intelligence, Asimov's Science Fiction, Attorneys in the United States, Better than Us, Bicentennial Man (film), Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series), Cal (short story), Capital punishment, Clarke's three laws, Collective intelligence, Continuity (fiction), Corporation, CRM 114 (fictional device), Cult film, Dark City (1998 film), David Brin, David Langford, Dictatorship, Don D'Ammassa, Dremel, Eando Binder, Elijah Baley, Ellen Ripley, Ethics of artificial intelligence, Evidence (short story), Evolutionary computation, Executioner, Extraterrestrial life, Extropianism, Failure cause, Faust, First Law, Forbidden Planet, Foundation (Asimov novel), Foundation (book series), Foundation and Chaos, Foundation and Earth, Foundation universe, Foundation's Fear, ... Expand index (127 more) »
- Fictional elements introduced in 1942
- Fictional laws
- Foundation universe
- Hypothetical laws
- Isaac Asimov
- Robots in literature
- Technology folklore
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (or simply A.I.) is a 2001 American science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg.
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Aaron Stone
Aaron Stone is a science fiction action-adventure television series created by Bruce Kalish.
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Adam Link
Adam Link is a fictional robot, made in the likeness of a man, who becomes self-aware, and the protagonist of several science fiction short stories written by Eando Binder, the pen name of Earl Andrew Binder and his brother, Otto Binder.
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Alex Proyas
Alexander Proyas (born 23 September 1963) is an Australian film director.
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Aliens (film)
Aliens is a 1986 science fiction action film written and directed by James Cameron.
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Anagram
An anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of a different word or phrase, typically using all the original letters exactly once.
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Analog Science Fiction and Fact
Analog Science Fiction and Fact is an American science fiction magazine published under various titles since 1930.
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Android (robot)
An android is a humanoid robot or other artificial being often made from a flesh-like material.
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Aphorism
An aphorism (from Greek ἀφορισμός: aphorismos, denoting 'delimitation', 'distinction', and 'definition') is a concise, terse, laconic, or memorable expression of a general truth or principle.
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Apocrypha
Apocrypha are biblical or related writings not forming part of the accepted canon of scripture.
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Arthur Hugh Clough
Arthur Hugh Clough (1 January 181913 November 1861) was an English poet, an educationalist, and the devoted assistant to Florence Nightingale.
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Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI), in its broadest sense, is intelligence exhibited by machines, particularly computer systems.
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Asimov's Science Fiction
Asimov's Science Fiction is an American science fiction magazine edited by Sheila Williams and published by Dell Magazines, which is owned by Penny Press. Three Laws of Robotics and Asimov's Science Fiction are Isaac Asimov.
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Attorneys in the United States
An attorney at law (or counsellor-at-law) in the United States is a practitioner in a court of law who is legally qualified to prosecute and defend actions in court on the retainer of clients.
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Better than Us
Better Than Us (Luchshe, chem lyudi, literally Better than People) is a 2018 Russian science fiction television series created by Andrey Junkovsky, about an advanced empathic android named Arisa.
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Bicentennial Man (film)
Bicentennial Man is a 1999 American science fiction comedy-drama film starring Robin Williams, Sam Neill, Embeth Davidtz (in a dual role), Wendy Crewson and Oliver Platt.
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series)
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century is an American science fiction adventure television series produced by Universal Studios.
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Cal (short story)
"Cal" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov.
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Capital punishment
Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty and formerly called judicial homicide, is the state-sanctioned killing of a person as punishment for actual or supposed misconduct.
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Clarke's three laws
British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke formulated three adages that are known as Clarke's three laws, of which the third law is the best known and most widely cited. Three Laws of Robotics and Clarke's three laws are technology folklore.
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Collective intelligence
Collective intelligence (CI) is shared or group intelligence (GI) that emerges from the collaboration, collective efforts, and competition of many individuals and appears in consensus decision making.
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Continuity (fiction)
In fiction, continuity is the consistency of the characteristics of people, plot, objects, and places seen by the audience over some period of time.
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Corporation
A corporation is an organization—usually a group of people or a company—authorized by the state to act as a single entity (a legal entity recognized by private and public law as "born out of statute"; a legal person in a legal context) and recognized as such in law for certain purposes.
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CRM 114 (fictional device)
The CRM 114 Discriminator is a fictional piece of radio equipment in Stanley Kubrick's film Dr. Strangelove (1964), the destruction of which prevents the crew of a B-52 from receiving the recall code that would stop them from dropping their hydrogen bombs on the Soviet Union.
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Cult film
A cult film or cult movie, also commonly referred to as a cult classic, is a film that has acquired a cult following.
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Dark City (1998 film)
Dark City is a 1998 neo-noir science fiction film directed by Alex Proyas, and starring Rufus Sewell, William Hurt, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, Richard O'Brien and Ian Richardson.
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David Brin
Glen David Brin (born October 6, 1950) is an American science fiction author.
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David Langford
David Rowland Langford (born 10 April 1953) is a British author, editor, and critic, largely active within the science fiction field.
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Dictatorship
A dictatorship is an autocratic form of government which is characterized by a leader, or a group of leaders, who hold governmental powers with few to no limitations.
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Don D'Ammassa
Donald Eugene D'Ammassa (born April 24, 1946) is an American fantasy, science fiction and horror critic and author.
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Dremel
Dremel is a multinational brand of power tools, focusing on home improvement and hobby applications.
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Eando Binder
Eando Binder is a pen name used by two mid-20th-century science fiction authors, Earl Andrew Binder (1904–1966) and his brother Otto Binder (1911–1974).
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Elijah Baley
Elijah "Lije" Baley is a fictional character in Isaac Asimov's ''Robot'' series.
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Ellen Ripley
Ellen Louise Ripley is a fictional character and the original protagonist of the ''Alien'' film series, played by American actress Sigourney Weaver.
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Ethics of artificial intelligence
The ethics of artificial intelligence covers a broad range of topics within the field that are considered to have particular ethical stakes.
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Evidence (short story)
"Evidence" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov.
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Evolutionary computation
In computer science, evolutionary computation is a family of algorithms for global optimization inspired by biological evolution, and the subfield of artificial intelligence and soft computing studying these algorithms.
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Executioner
An executioner, also known as a hangman or headsman, is an official who effects a sentence of capital punishment on a condemned person.
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Extraterrestrial life
Extraterrestrial life, alien life, or colloquially simply aliens, is life which does not originate from Earth.
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Extropianism
Extropianism, also referred to as the philosophy of extropy, is an "evolving framework of values and standards for continuously improving the human condition".
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Failure cause
Failure causes are defects in design, process, quality, or part application, which are the underlying cause of a failure or which initiate a process which leads to failure.
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Faust
Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend based on the historical Johann Georg Faust.
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First Law
"First Law" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov, first published in the October 1956 issue of Fantastic Universe magazine and later collected in The Rest of the Robots (1964) and The Complete Robot (1982).
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Forbidden Planet
Forbidden Planet is a 1956 American science fiction film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, produced by Nicholas Nayfack, and directed by Fred M. Wilcox from a script by Cyril Hume that was based on an original film story by Allen Adler and Irving Block.
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Foundation (Asimov novel)
Foundation is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov.
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Foundation (book series)
The Foundation series (or trilogy) is a science fiction book series written by American author Isaac Asimov. Three Laws of Robotics and Foundation (book series) are Foundation universe.
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Foundation and Chaos
Foundation and Chaos (1998) is a science fiction novel by Greg Bear, set in Isaac Asimov's ''Foundation'' universe.
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Foundation and Earth
Foundation and Earth is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov, the fifth novel of the ''Foundation'' series and chronologically the last in the series.
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Foundation universe
The Foundation universe is the future history of humanity's colonization of the galaxy, spanning nearly 25,000 years, created through the gradual fusion of the Robot, Galactic Empire, and Foundation book series written by American author Isaac Asimov. Three Laws of Robotics and Foundation universe are Isaac Asimov.
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Foundation's Fear
Foundation's Fear (1997) is a science fiction novel by American writer Gregory Benford, set in Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe.
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Foundation's Friends
Foundation's Friends, Stories in Honor of Isaac Asimov is a 1989 book written in honor of science fiction author Isaac Asimov, in the form of an anthology of short stories set in Asimov's universes, particularly the ''Foundation'' universe.
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Foundation's Triumph
Foundation's Triumph (1999) is a science fiction novel by American writer David Brin, set in Isaac Asimov's ''Foundation'' universe.
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Fractal
In mathematics, a fractal is a geometric shape containing detailed structure at arbitrarily small scales, usually having a fractal dimension strictly exceeding the topological dimension.
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Frederik Pohl
Frederik George Pohl Jr. (November 26, 1919 – September 2, 2013) was an American science-fiction writer, editor, and fan, with a career spanning nearly 75 years—from his first published work, the 1937 poem "Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna", to the 2011 novel All the Lives He Led.
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Free will
Free will is the capacity or ability to choose between different possible courses of action.
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French language
French (français,, or langue française,, or by some speakers) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.
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Friendly artificial intelligence
Friendly artificial intelligence (also friendly AI or FAI) is hypothetical artificial general intelligence (AGI) that would have a positive (benign) effect on humanity or at least align with human interests or contribute to fostering the improvement of the human species.
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Galactic Empire (Asimov)
The Galactic Empire is an interstellar empire featured in Isaac Asimov's Robot, Galactic Empire, and Foundation series. Three Laws of Robotics and Galactic Empire (Asimov) are Foundation universe.
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Gamma ray
A gamma ray, also known as gamma radiation (symbol), is a penetrating form of electromagnetic radiation arising from the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei.
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Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, known in Japan as just, is a 2004 Japanese animated cyberpunk film written and directed by Mamoru Oshii.
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Gold (Asimov book)
Gold: The Final Science Fiction Collection is a 1995 collection of stories and essays by American writer Isaac Asimov.
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Greg Bear
Gregory Dale Bear (August 20, 1951 – November 19, 2022) was an American writer and illustrator best known for science fiction.
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Gregory Benford
Gregory Benford (born January 30, 1941) is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is professor emeritus at the department of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Irvine.
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Gwendoline Butler
Gwendoline Butler, née Williams (19 August 1922 – 5 January 2013), was a British writer known for her mystery fiction and romance novels.
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Hammer
A hammer is a tool, most often a hand tool, consisting of a weighted "head" fixed to a long handle that is swung to deliver an impact to a small area of an object.
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Hans Moravec
Hans Peter Moravec (born November 30, 1948, Kautzen, Austria) is an adjunct faculty member at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA.
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Harlan Ellison
Harlan Jay Ellison (May 27, 1934 – June 28, 2018) was an American writer, known for his prolific and influential work in New Wave speculative fiction and for his outspoken, combative personality.
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Harry Harrison (writer)
Harry Max Harrison (born Henry Maxwell Dempsey; March 12, 1925 – August 15, 2012) was an American science fiction author, known mostly for his character The Stainless Steel Rat and for his novel Make Room! Make Room! (1966).
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Hawkwind
Hawkwind are an English rock band known as one of the earliest space rock groups.
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Helen O'Loy
"Helen O'Loy" is a science fiction short story by American writer Lester del Rey, originally published in 1938 in Astounding Science Fiction.
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Hutan Ashrafian
Hutan Ashrafian is an academic, cardiothoracic surgeon, robotic surgeon, bariatric surgeon, computational biologist, immunologist, entrepreneur, historian, writer, martial artist and philosopher.
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I, Robot
I, Robot is a fixup collection made up of science fiction short stories by American writer Isaac Asimov.
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I, Robot (film)
I, Robot (stylized as i, ROBOT) is a 2004 American science fiction action film directed by Alex Proyas. Three Laws of Robotics and i, Robot (film) are Foundation universe.
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I, Robot (short story)
"I, Robot" is a science fiction short story by Eando Binder (nom de plume for Earl and Otto Binder), part of a series about a robot named Adam Link.
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov (– April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.
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Isaac Asimov's Utopia
Isaac Asimov's Utopia (1996) is a science fiction novel by American writer Roger MacBride Allen, set in Isaac Asimov's ''Foundation'' universe.
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Jack Williamson
John Stewart Williamson (April 29, 1908 – November 10, 2006), who wrote as Jack Williamson, was an American science fiction writer, one of several called the "Dean of Science Fiction".
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James E. Gunn
James Edwin Gunn (July 12, 1923 – December 23, 2020) was an American science fiction writer, editor, scholar, and anthologist.
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James H. Moor
James H. Moor is the Daniel P. Stone Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at Dartmouth College.
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John W. Campbell
John Wood Campbell Jr. (June 8, 1910 – July 11, 1971) was an American science fiction writer and editor.
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Jury
A jury is a sworn body of people (jurors) convened to hear evidence, make findings of fact, and render an impartial verdict officially submitted to them by a court, or to set a penalty or judgment.
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Laws of robotics
Laws of robotics are any set of laws, rules, or principles, which are intended as a fundamental framework to underpin the behavior of robots designed to have a degree of autonomy.
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Lester del Rey
Lester del Rey (June 2, 1915 – May 10, 1993) was an American science fiction author and editor.
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Liar! (short story)
"Liar!" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov.
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List of Alien (franchise) characters
Alien, a science-fiction action horror franchise, tells the story of humanity's ongoing encounters with Aliens (xenomorphs): a hostile, endoparasitoid, extraterrestrial species.
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List of eponymous laws
This list of eponymous laws provides links to articles on laws, principles, adages, and other succinct observations or predictions named after a person.
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List of Robot series characters
The following is a list of characters in Isaac Asimov's ''Robot'' series.
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Little Lost Robot
"Little Lost Robot" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov.
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Lolita
Lolita is a 1955 novel written by Russian-American novelist Vladimir Nabokov that addresses the controversial subject of hebephilia.
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Lone Ranger
The Lone Ranger is a fictional masked former Texas Ranger who fought outlaws in the American Old West with his Native American friend Tonto.
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Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn
Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn is the final novel in the ''Lucky Starr'' series, six juvenile science fiction novels by Isaac Asimov that originally appeared under the pseudonym Paul French.
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Lucky Starr series
Lucky Starr is the hero of a series of science fiction books by Isaac Asimov, using the pen name "Paul French" and intended for children.
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Lyuben Dilov
Lyuben Dilov Ivanov (Любен Дилов Иванов, 25 December 1927- 10 June 2008), occasionally spelled Luben Dilov, Ljuben Dilov or Liuben Dilov was a Bulgarian science fiction writer of the Communist era and the author of acclaimed children's fiction and non-fiction works.
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Marilyn vos Savant
Marilyn vos Savant (born Marilyn Mach; August 11, 1946) is an American magazine columnist who has the highest recorded intelligence quotient (IQ) in the Guinness Book of Records, a competitive category the publication has since retired.
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Mark W. Tiedemann
Mark W. Tiedemann (born 1954 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American science fiction and detective fiction author.
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Metacognition
Metacognition is an awareness of one's thought processes and an understanding of the patterns behind them.
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Military robot
Military robots are autonomous robots or remote-controlled mobile robots designed for military applications, from transport to search & rescue and attack.
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Minority Report (film)
Minority Report is a 2002 American cyberpunk action film directed by Steven Spielberg, loosely based on Philip K. Dick's 1956 novella "The Minority Report".
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Morality
Morality is the categorization of intentions, decisions and actions into those that are proper (right) and those that are improper (wrong).
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Nanotechnology
Nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter with at least one dimension sized from 1 to 100 nanometers (nm).
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Natural selection
Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype.
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New York (state)
New York, also called New York State, is a state in the Northeastern United States.
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Nikola Kesarovski
Nikola Kesarovski (Никола Кесаровски) (c. 11 November 1944 – 29 August 2007) was a Bulgarian science-fiction writer.
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Niven's laws
Niven's laws were named after science fiction author Larry Niven, who has periodically published them as "how the Universe works" as far as he can tell.
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Paranoia (role-playing game)
Paranoia is a dystopian science-fiction tabletop role-playing game originally designed and written by Greg Costikyan, Dan Gelber, and Eric Goldberg, and first published in 1984 by West End Games.
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Parody
A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation.
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Piled Higher and Deeper
Piled Higher and Deeper (also known as PhD Comics) is a discontinued newspaper and webcomic strip produced from 1997 to 2018.
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Positronic brain
A positronic brain is a fictional technological device, originally conceived by science fiction writer Isaac Asimov. Three Laws of Robotics and positronic brain are Foundation universe.
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Prelude to Foundation
Prelude to Foundation is a novel by American writer Isaac Asimov, published in 1988.
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Project GAMMA
Project GAMMA was the name given in 1968 to Detachment B-57, Company E (Special Operations), 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne) (5th SFG(A)) in Vietnam from 1967 to 1970.
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Pseudonym
A pseudonym or alias is a fictitious name that a person assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true name (orthonym).
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PXR5
PXR5 is the ninth studio album by the English space rock group Hawkwind, released in 1979.
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Queens
Queens is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Queens County, in the U.S. state of New York.
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R. Daneel Olivaw
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Randall Garrett
Gordon Randall Phillip David Garrett in The Encyclopedia of Fantasy; edited by John Clute and John Grant; published 1997 (December 16, 1927 – December 31, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy author.
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Randall Munroe
Randall Patrick Munroe (born October 17, 1984) is an American cartoonist, author, and engineer best known as the creator of the webcomic xkcd.
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Raumpatrouille – Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion
Raumpatrouille – Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion, also known as Raumpatrouille Orion, and Space Patrol Orion in English, is a West German science fiction television series.
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Reason (short story)
"Reason" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov, first published in the April 1941 issue of Astounding Science Fiction and collected in I, Robot (1950), The Complete Robot (1982), and Robot Visions (1990).
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Reformation
The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church.
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Regulation of algorithms
Regulation of algorithms, or algorithmic regulation, is the creation of laws, rules and public sector policies for promotion and regulation of algorithms, particularly in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
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Religion
Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.
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Repo Man (film)
Repo Man is a 1984 American science fiction black comedy film written and directed by Alex Cox in his directorial debut.
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Residual-current device
A residual-current device (RCD), residual-current circuit breaker (RCCB) or ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) is an electrical safety device that interrupts an electrical circuit when the current passing through a conductor is not equal and opposite in both directions, therefore indicating leakage current to ground or current flowing to another powered conductor.
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Retroactive continuity
Retroactive continuity, or retcon for short, is a literary device in which facts in the world of a fictional work that have been established through the narrative itself are adjusted, ignored, supplemented, or contradicted by a subsequently published work that recontextualizes or breaks continuity with the former.
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Robbie (short story)
"Robbie" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov.
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Robby the Robot
Robby the Robot is a fictional character and science fiction icon who first appeared in the 1956 film Forbidden Planet.
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Robert J. Sawyer
Robert James Sawyer (born April 29, 1960) is a Canadian and American science fiction writer.
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Robert Silverberg
Robert Silverberg (born January 15, 1935) is an American author and editor, best known for writing science fiction.
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Robin Williams
Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian.
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Robot
A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer—capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically.
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Robot Dreams
Robot Dreams (1986) is a collection of science fiction short stories by American writer Isaac Asimov, illustrated by Ralph McQuarrie.
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Robot ethics
Robot ethics, sometimes known as "roboethics", concerns ethical problems that occur with robots, such as whether robots pose a threat to humans in the long or short run, whether some uses of robots are problematic (such as in healthcare or as 'killer robots' in war), and how robots should be designed such that they act 'ethically' (this last concern is also called machine ethics).
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Robot series
The Robot Series is a series of thirty-seven science fiction short stories and six novels created by American writer Isaac Asimov, from 1940 to 1995. Three Laws of Robotics and Robot series are Foundation universe.
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Robots and Empire
Robots and Empire is a science fiction novel by the American author Isaac Asimov, published by Doubleday Books in 1985.
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Roger MacBride Allen
Roger MacBride Allen (born September 26, 1957) is an American science fiction author.
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Roomba
Roomba is a term that refers to a series of autonomous robotic vacuum cleaners made by the company iRobot, and was first introduced in September 2002.
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Runaround (story)
"Runaround" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov, featuring his recurring characters Powell and Donovan.
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Sally (short story)
"Sally" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov.
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Science (journal)
Science, also widely referred to as Science Magazine, is the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and one of the world's top academic journals.
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Science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.
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Screwdriver
A screwdriver is a tool, manual or powered, used for turning screws.
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Sentience
Sentience is the ability to experience feelings and sensations.
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South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.
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Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and photographer.
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Star Wars
Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise created by George Lucas, which began with the eponymous 1977 film and quickly became a worldwide pop culture phenomenon.
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Super Science Stories
Super Science Stories was an American pulp science fiction magazine published by Popular Publications from 1940 to 1943, and again from 1949 to 1951.
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Susan Calvin
Dr.
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Symbiosis
Symbiosis (from Greek,, "living with, companionship, camaraderie", from,, "together", and, bíōsis, "living") is any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two biological organisms of different species, termed symbionts, be it mutualistic, commensalistic, or parasitic.
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Telekinesis
Telekinesis is a hypothetical psychic ability allowing an individual to influence a physical system without physical interaction.
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Telepathy
Telepathy is the purported vicarious transmission of information from one person's mind to another's without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction.
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Ten Commandments
The Ten Commandments (עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדְּבָרִים|ʿĂsereṯ haDəḇārīm|The Ten Words), or the Decalogue (from Latin decalogus, from Ancient Greek label), are religious and ethical directives, structured as a covenant document, that, according to the Hebrew Bible, are given by Yahweh to Moses.
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The Bicentennial Man
"The Bicentennial Man" is a novelette in the ''Robot'' series by American writer Isaac Asimov.
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The Caves of Steel
The Caves of Steel is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov.
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The Daily Star (Bangladesh)
The Daily Star is a Bangladeshi English-language daily newspaper.
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The Evitable Conflict
"The Evitable Conflict" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov.
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The Humanoids
The Humanoids is a 1949 dystopian science fiction novel by American author Jack Williamson (1908–2006).
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The Matrix
The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction action film written and directed by the Wachowskis.
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The Naked Sun
The Naked Sun is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov, the second in his ''Robot'' series.
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The Onion
The Onion is an American digital media company and newspaper organization that publishes satirical articles on international, national, and local news.
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The Positronic Man
The Positronic Man is a 1992 novel by American writers Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg, based on Asimov's 1976 novelette "The Bicentennial Man".
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The Robots of Dawn
The Robots of Dawn is a "whodunit" science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov, first published in 1983.
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The Simpsons
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.
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The Transhumanist Wager
The Transhumanist Wager is a 2013 science fiction novel by American author Zoltan Istvan.
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Thiotimoline
Thiotimoline is a fictitious chemical compound conceived by American biochemist and science fiction author Isaac Asimov.
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Time of Eve
is a six-episode ONA anime series created by Yasuhiro Yoshiura.
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Transhumanism
Transhumanism is a philosophical and intellectual movement that advocates the enhancement of the human condition by developing and making widely available new and future technologies that can greatly enhance longevity, cognition, and well-being.
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United States Armed Forces
The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States.
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Unmanned aerial vehicle
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without any human pilot, crew, or passengers on board.
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Valentin Ivanov (astronomer)
Valentin D. Ivanov (Валентин Д.) is a Bulgarian astronomer working in the European Southern Observatory, mainly at the Paranal site.
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Vignette (literature)
A vignette (also) is a French loanword expressing a short and descriptive piece of writing that captures a brief period in time.
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Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Владимир Владимирович Набоков; 2 July 1977), also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin (Владимир Сирин), was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator, and entomologist.
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Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet (21 November 169430 May 1778), known by his nom de plume M. de Voltaire (also), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian.
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Webcomic
Webcomics (also known as online comics or Internet comics) are comics published on the internet, such as on a website or a mobile app.
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With Folded Hands
"With Folded Hands..." is a 1947 science fiction novelette by American writer Jack Williamson (1908–2006).
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Young adult literature
Young adult literature (YA) is typically written for readers aged 12 to 18 and includes most of the themes found in adult fiction, such as friendship, substance abuse, alcoholism, and sexuality.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
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Zero-based numbering
Zero-based numbering is a way of numbering in which the initial element of a sequence is assigned the index 0, rather than the index 1 as is typical in everyday non-mathematical or non-programming circumstances.
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See also
Fictional elements introduced in 1942
- Bat-Signal
- Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge
- Encyclopedia Galactica
- Invisible Plane
- Lasso of Truth
- Marlinspike Hall
- Riverdale (Archie Comics)
- Three Laws of Robotics
Fictional laws
- Article 15 (idiom)
- Internet Privacy Act
- Law of the jungle
- Prime Directive
- Rules of Acquisition
- Three Laws of Robotics
Foundation universe
- Blind Alley
- Encyclopedia Galactica
- Foundation (TV series)
- Foundation (book series)
- Foundation universe
- Galactic Empire (Asimov)
- Galactic Empire series
- I, Robot (film)
- Positronic brain
- Psychohistory (fictional science)
- Robopsychology
- Robot series
- The Foundation Trilogy (radio series)
- The Originist
- The Three Laws of Robotics in popular culture
- Three Laws of Robotics
Hypothetical laws
- Meat tax
- Perpetual copyright
- Pottery Barn rule
- Three Laws of Robotics
Isaac Asimov
- Asimov (crater)
- Asimov's Science Fiction
- Black Widowers
- En L'An 2000
- Foundation universe
- Frankenstein complex
- Isaac Asimov
- Isaac Asimov Awards
- Isaac Asimov's Robots in Time
- Isaac Asimov's Science Adventure
- Isaac's Universe
- Mesoplanet
- Multivac
- Norby
- Petrovichi
- Planetary chauvinism
- Salvage 1
- Three Laws of Robotics
- Works by Isaac Asimov
Robots in literature
- Bolo universe
- Fables for Robots
- Felix, Net i Nika
- Hundred (novel series)
- Isaac Asimov's Robots in Time
- Manna (novel)
- Maschinen Krieger ZbV 3000
- Moxon's Master
- O Human Star
- Robots (Ace anthology)
- Robots (Asimov anthology)
- Robots in literature
- Souls in Metal
- The Darfsteller
- The Defenders (short story)
- The Rest of the Robots
- The Robot and the Man
- The Ruum
- The Stories of Ibis
- Three Laws of Robotics
- War with the Robots
Technology folklore
- Clarke's three laws
- Fan death
- Gremlin
- Gremlins
- JATO Rocket Car
- Pauli effect
- Three Laws of Robotics
References
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