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Three Laws of Robotics

Index Three Laws of Robotics

The Three Laws of Robotics (often shortened to The Three Laws or known as Asimov's Laws) are a set of rules devised by the science fiction author Isaac Asimov. [1]

182 relations: A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Aaron Stone, Adam Link, Alex Proyas, Alien (film), Aliens (film), Altruism, Anagram, Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Android (robot), Aphorism, Apocrypha, Arthur Hugh Clough, Artificial intelligence, Asimov's Science Fiction, Astonishing Stories, Attorneys in the United States, Bicentennial Man (film), Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series), Cal (short story), Capital punishment, Citizen Kane, 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 and Chaos, Foundation and Earth, ..., Foundation series, Foundation's Fear, Foundation's Friends, Foundation's Triumph, Fractal, Frederik Pohl, Free fall, Free will, French language, Friendly artificial intelligence, Gaia (Foundation universe), Galactic Empire (Isaac Asimov), Gamma ray, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, Gold (Asimov book), Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Gwendoline Butler, Hammer, Hans Moravec, Harlan Ellison, Harry Harrison (writer), Hawkwind, Helen O'Loy, I, Robot, I, Robot (film), I, Robot (short story), Information privacy law, Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Caliban, Isaac Asimov's Inferno, Isaac Asimov's Utopia, Jack Williamson, James E. Gunn (writer), James H. Moor, John W. Campbell, Jury, Karl Schroeder, Knife game, Laws of robotics, Lester del Rey, Liar! (short story), List of Alien characters, List of Robot series characters, Little Lost Robot, Lolita, Lucky Starr and the Rings of Saturn, Lucky Starr series, Lyuben Dilov, Marc Rotenberg, Mark W. Tiedemann, Metacognition, Military robot, Minority Report (film), Morality, Nanotechnology, Natural selection, New York (state), Nikola Kesarovski, Niven's laws, Paranoia (role-playing game), Parody, Piled Higher and Deeper, Positronic brain, Prelude to Foundation, Pseudonym, Psychokinesis, PXR5, Queens, R. Daneel Olivaw, Randall Garrett, Raumpatrouille – Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion, Reason (short story), Reformation, Religion, Repo Man (film), Residual-current device, Retroactive continuity, Robbie (short story), Robby the Robot, Robert J. Sawyer, Robert Silverberg, Robin Williams, RoboCop, Robot, Robot Dreams, Robot ethics, Robot series (Asimov), Robots and Empire, Roger MacBride Allen, Roomba, Runaround (story), Sally (short story), Science (journal), Science fiction, Screwdriver, Sentience, Solaria, South Korea, Stanley Kubrick, Star Wars, Summary execution, Susan Calvin, Symbiosis, Telepathy, Ten Commandments, The Bicentennial Man, The Caves of Steel, The Daily Star (Bangladesh), The Evitable Conflict, The Lone Ranger (TV series), The Matrix, The Naked Sun, The Onion, The Portal, The Robots of Dawn, The Simpsons, The Transhumanist Wager, Thiotimoline, Transhumanism, Trantor, United States Armed Forces, Unmanned aerial vehicle, Valentin Ivanov (astronomer), Vignette (literature), Vladimir Nabokov, Voltaire, Webcomic, With Folded Hands, Young adult fiction, Zero-based numbering, . . . That Thou Art Mindful of Him. Expand index (132 more) »

A.I. Artificial Intelligence

A.I. Artificial Intelligence, also known as A.I., is a 2001 American science fiction drama film directed by Steven Spielberg.

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Aaron Stone

Aaron Stone is a Canadian/American 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 (Earl and Otto Binder).

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Alex Proyas

Alexander Proyas (born 23 September 1963) is an Australian film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Alien (film)

Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott, and starring Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm and Yaphet Kotto.

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Aliens (film)

Aliens is a 1986 American science fiction action film written and directed by James Cameron, produced by Gale Anne Hurd and starring Sigourney Weaver.

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Altruism

Altruism is the principle and moral practice of concern for happiness of other human beings, resulting in a quality of life both material and spiritual.

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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 synthetic organism designed to look and act like a human, especially one with a body having a flesh-like resemblance.

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Aphorism

An aphorism (from Greek ἀφορισμός: aphorismos, denoting "delimitation", "distinction", and "definition") is a concise, terse, laconic, and/or memorable expression of a general truth or principle.

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Apocrypha

Apocrypha are works, usually written, of unknown authorship or of doubtful origin.

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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, also machine intelligence, MI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence (NI) displayed by humans and other animals.

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Asimov's Science Fiction

Asimov's Science Fiction (ISSN 1065-2698) is an American science fiction magazine which publishes science fiction and fantasy named after science fiction author Isaac Asimov.

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Astonishing Stories

Astonishing Stories was an American pulp science fiction magazine, published by Popular Publications between 1940 and 1943.

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Attorneys in the United States

An attorney at law (or attorney-at-law) in the United States is a practitioner in a court of law who is legally qualified to prosecute and defend actions in such court on the retainer of clients.

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Bicentennial Man (film)

Bicentennial Man is a 1999 Canadian-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, is a government-sanctioned practice whereby a person is put to death by the state as a punishment for a crime.

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Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane is a 1941 American mystery drama film by Orson Welles, its producer, co-screenwriter, director and star.

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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.

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Collective intelligence

Collective intelligence (CI) is shared or group intelligence 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 consistency of the characteristics of people, plot, objects, and places seen by the reader or viewer over some period of time.

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Corporation

A corporation is a company or group of people or an organisation authorized to act as a single entity (legally a person) and recognized as such in law.

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CRM 114 (fictional device)

The C R.M. 114 Discriminator is a fictional piece of critical radio equipment in Stanley Kubrick's film Dr. Strangelove (1964), the destruction of which prevents the crew of a B-52 from hearing 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 American-Australian neo-noir science fiction film directed by Alex Proyas.

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David Brin

Glen David Brin (born October 6, 1950) is an American scientist and author of science fiction.

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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 authoritarian form of government, characterized by a single leader or group of leaders with either no party or a weak party, little mass mobilization, and limited political pluralism.

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Don D'Ammassa

Donald Eugene D'Ammassa (born April 24, 1946) is an American fantasy, science fiction and horror reviewer and author.

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Dremel

Dremel is an American brand of power tools known primarily for its rotary tools.

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Eando Binder

Eando Binder is a pen-name used by two mid-20th-century science fiction authors, Earl Andrew Binder (1904–1965) 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 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 is the part of the ethics of technology specific to robots and other artificially intelligent beings.

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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

A judicial executioner is a person who carries out a death sentence ordered by the state or other legal authority, which was known in feudal terminology as high justice.

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Extraterrestrial life

Extraterrestrial life,Where "extraterrestrial" is derived from the Latin extra ("beyond", "not of") and terrestris ("of Earth", "belonging to 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 (c. 1480–1540).

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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 produced by Nicholas Nayfack, directed by Fred M. Wilcox that stars Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, and Leslie Nielsen.

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Foundation (Asimov novel)

Foundation is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov.

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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 series

The Foundation series is a science fiction book series written by American author 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 Robot/Empire/Foundation universe.

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Foundation's Triumph

Foundation's Triumph (1999) is a science fiction novel by David Brin, set in Isaac Asimov's ''Foundation'' universe.

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Fractal

In mathematics, a fractal is an abstract object used to describe and simulate naturally occurring objects.

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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 more than 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 and articles and essays published in 2012.

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Free fall

In Newtonian physics, free fall is any motion of a body where gravity is the only force acting upon it.

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Free will

Free will is the ability to choose between different possible courses of action unimpeded.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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Friendly artificial intelligence

A friendly artificial intelligence (also friendly AI or FAI) is a hypothetical artificial general intelligence (AGI) that would have a positive effect on humanity.

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Gaia (Foundation universe)

Gaia is a fictional planet described in the book Foundation's Edge (1982) and referred to in Foundation and Earth (1986), by Isaac Asimov.

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Galactic Empire (Isaac Asimov)

In Isaac Asimov's Robot/Empire/''Foundation'' series of novels, the Galactic Empire is an empire consisting of millions of planets settled by humans across the whole Milky Way Galaxy.

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Gamma ray

A gamma ray or gamma radiation (symbol γ or \gamma), is penetrating 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, is a 2004 anime/computer-animated science fiction film that serves as a sequel to 1995's Ghost in the Shell.

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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 "Greg" Bear (born August 20, 1951) is 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 on the faculty of 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 of mystery fiction and romance novels since 1956, she also used the pseudonym Jennie Melville.

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Hammer

A hammer is a tool or device that delivers a blow (a sudden impact) to 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.

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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 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 and 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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I, Robot

I, Robot is a fixup of science fiction short stories or essays by American writer Isaac Asimov.

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I, Robot (film)

I, Robot (stylized as i) is a 2004 American science fiction action film directed by Alex Proyas.

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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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Information privacy law

Information privacy law or data protection laws prohibit the disclosure or misuse of information about private individuals.

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Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.

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Isaac Asimov's Caliban

Isaac Asimov's Caliban (1993) is a science fiction novel by American writer Roger MacBride Allen, set in Isaac Asimov's Robot/Empire/Foundation universe.

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Isaac Asimov's Inferno

Isaac Asimov's Inferno (1994) is a science fiction novel by American writer Roger MacBride Allen, set in Isaac Asimov's Robot/Empire/Foundation universe.

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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 Robot/Empire/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, often called the "Dean of Science Fiction" after the death of Robert Heinlein in 1988.

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James E. Gunn (writer)

James Edwin Gunn (born July 12, 1923) is 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 convened to render an impartial verdict (a finding of fact on a question) officially submitted to them by a court, or to set a penalty or judgment.

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Karl Schroeder

Karl Schroeder (born September 4, 1962) is a Canadian science fiction author.

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Knife game

The knife game, pinfinger, nerve, bishop, stabscotch, five finger fillet (FFF), or "stab between the fingers game", is a game wherein, placing the palm of one's hand down on a table with fingers apart, using a knife (such as a pocket or pen knife), or other sharp object, one attempts to stab back and forth between one's fingers, moving the object back and forth, trying to not hit one's fingers.

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Laws of robotics

Laws of Robotics are a 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 characters

Alien, a science-fiction action horror franchise, tells the story of humanity's ongoing encounters with Aliens: a hostile, endoparasitoid, extraterrestrial species.

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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.

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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 juveniles.

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Lyuben Dilov

Lyuben Dilov (Любен Дилов, 1927, Cherven Bryag - 10 June 2008, Sofia), also known as Luben Dilov and Ljuben Dilov was a Bulgarian science-fiction writer.

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Marc Rotenberg

Marc Rotenberg is President and Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), an independent, public interest research center in Washington, DC.

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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 "cognition about cognition", "thinking about thinking", "knowing about knowing", becoming "aware of one's awareness" and higher-order thinking skills.

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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 neo-noir science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg and loosely based on the short story "The Minority Report" by Philip K. Dick.

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Morality

Morality (from) is the differentiation of intentions, decisions and actions between those that are distinguished as proper and those that are improper.

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Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology ("nanotech") is manipulation of matter on an atomic, molecular, and supramolecular scale.

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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 is a state in the northeastern United States.

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Nikola Kesarovski

Nikola Kesarovski (Никола Кесаровски) (c. 1935 – 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 (also called a spoof, send-up, take-off, lampoon, play on something, caricature, or joke) is a work created to imitate, make fun of, or comment on an original work—its subject, author, style, or some other target—by means of satiric or ironic imitation.

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Piled Higher and Deeper

Piled Higher and Deeper (also known as PhD Comics), is a newspaper and webcomic strip written and drawn by Jorge Cham that follows the lives of several grad students.

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Positronic brain

A positronic brain is a fictional technological device, originally conceived by science fiction writer Isaac Asimov.

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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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Pseudonym

A pseudonym or alias is a name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which can differ from their first or true name (orthonym).

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Psychokinesis

Psychokinesis (from Greek ψυχή "mind" and κίνησις "movement"), or telekinesis (from τηλε- "far off" and κίνηση "movement"), is an alleged psychic ability allowing a person to influence a physical system without physical interaction. Psychokinesis experiments have historically been criticized for lack of proper controls and repeatability. There is no convincing evidence that psychokinesis is a real phenomenon, and the topic is generally regarded as pseudoscience.

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PXR5

PXR5 is the ninth studio album by Hawkwind, released in 1979.

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Queens

Queens is the easternmost and largest in area of the five boroughs of New York City.

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R. Daneel Olivaw

R.

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Randall Garrett

Randall Garrett (December 16, 1927 – December 31, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy author.

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Raumpatrouille – Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion

Raumpatrouille – Die phantastischen Abenteuer des Raumschiffes Orion (literal translation: Space Patrol – The Fantastic Adventures of the Spaceship Orion), also known as Raumpatrouille Orion, and Space Patrol Orion in English, was the first 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 (or, more fully, the Protestant Reformation; also, the European Reformation) was a schism in Western Christianity initiated by Martin Luther and continued by Huldrych Zwingli, John Calvin and other Protestant Reformers in 16th century Europe.

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Religion

Religion may be defined as a cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, world views, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements.

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Repo Man (film)

Repo Man is a 1984 American science fiction comedy film written and directed by Alex Cox.

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Residual-current device

A residual-current device (RCD), or residual-current circuit breaker (RCCB), is a device that instantly breaks an electric circuit to prevent serious harm from an ongoing electric shock.

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Retroactive continuity

Retroactive continuity, or retcon for short, is a literary device in which established facts in a fictional work are adjusted, ignored, or contradicted by a subsequently published work which 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 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, 1951 – August 11, 2014) was an American actor and comedian.

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RoboCop

RoboCop is a 1987 American cyberpunk action film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner.

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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 Isaac Asimov, illustrated by Ralph McQuarrie.

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Robot ethics

Robot ethics, sometimes known by the short expression "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 as they act 'ethically' (this last concern is also called machine ethics).

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Robot series (Asimov)

The Robot series is a series of 38 science fiction short stories and 5 novels by American writer Isaac Asimov, featuring positronic robots.

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Robots and Empire

Robots and Empire is a science fiction novel by the American author Isaac Asimov and 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 series of autonomous robotic vacuum cleaners sold by iRobot.

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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 (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Screwdriver

A screwdriver is a tool, manual or powered, for screwing and unscrewing (inserting and removing) screws.

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Sentience

Sentience is the capacity to feel, perceive or experience subjectively.

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Solaria

Solaria was a fictional human-inhabited planet in Isaac Asimov's Foundation and Robot series.

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South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (대한민국; Hanja: 大韓民國; Daehan Minguk,; lit. "The Great Country of the Han People"), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and lying east to the Asian mainland.

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Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.

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Star Wars

Star Wars is an American epic space opera media franchise, centered on a film series created by George Lucas.

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Summary execution

A summary execution is an execution in which a person is accused of a crime and immediately killed without benefit of a full and fair trial.

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Susan Calvin

Dr.

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Symbiosis

Symbiosis (from Greek συμβίωσις "living together", from σύν "together" and βίωσις "living") is any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two different biological organisms, be it mutualistic, commensalistic, or parasitic.

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Telepathy

Telepathy (from the Greek τῆλε, tele meaning "distant" and πάθος, pathos or -patheia meaning "feeling, perception, passion, affliction, experience") is the purported transmission of information from one person to another without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction.

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Ten Commandments

The Ten Commandments (עֲשֶׂרֶת הַדִּבְּרוֹת, Aseret ha'Dibrot), also known as the Decalogue, are a set of biblical principles relating to ethics and worship, which play a fundamental role in Judaism and Christianity.

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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 novel by American writer Isaac Asimov.

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The Daily Star (Bangladesh)

The Daily Star is the largest circulating daily English-language newspaper in Bangladesh.

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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 Lone Ranger (TV series)

The Lone Ranger is an American western drama television series that aired on the ABC Television network from 1949 to 1957, with Clayton Moore in the starring role.

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The Matrix

The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction action film written and directed by The Wachowskis (credited as The Wachowski Brothers) and starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Hugo Weaving, and Joe Pantoliano.

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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 news satire organization that publishes articles on international, national, and local news.

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The Portal

The Portal (located at) is the gap between the Lashly Mountains and Portal Mountain, through which the main stream of the Skelton Glacier enters the Skelton Névé from the polar plateau.

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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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Transhumanism

Transhumanism (abbreviated as H+ or h+) is an international intellectual movement that aims to transform the human condition by developing and making widely available sophisticated technologies to greatly enhance human intellect and physiology.

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Trantor

Trantor is a fictional planet in Isaac Asimov's ''Foundation'' Series and ''Empire'' series of science fiction novels.

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United States Armed Forces

The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States of America.

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Unmanned aerial vehicle

An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), commonly known as a drone, is an aircraft without a human pilot aboard.

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Valentin Ivanov (astronomer)

Valentin D. Ivanov (Валентин Д. Иванов) is a Bulgarian astronomer working in the European Southern Observatory, mainly at the Paranal site.

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Vignette (literature)

In a novel, theatrical script, screenplay, sketch stories, and poetry, a vignette is a short impressionistic scene that focuses on one moment or character and gives a trenchant impression about that character, an idea, setting, and/or object.

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Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков, also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; 2 July 1977) was a Russian-American novelist, poet, translator and entomologist.

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Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on Christianity as a whole, especially the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech and separation of church and state.

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Webcomic

Webcomics (also known as online comics or Internet comics) are comics published on a website or mobile app.

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With Folded Hands

"With Folded Hands..." is a 1947 science fiction novelette by American writer Jack Williamson.

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Young adult fiction

Young adult fiction (YA) is a category of fiction published for readers in their youth.

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Zero-based numbering

Zero-based numbering or index origin.

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. . . That Thou Art Mindful of Him

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics

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