Asimov wrote ten times more books in his lifetime than most Americans read in their lifetime. That statistic alone is crazy. Although to be fair book reading only began to decline in the last decade... but even so his sheer prolific nature is astounding. This is also the man who is almost single handedly responsible for my career path.
@@seanwebb605 I knew Asimov. He would disagree, he would've thought you were singularly valuable just being here. Issac was one hell of a nice guy. Heinlein and Asimov together (wow what a convention!) was a conversation amongst gods.
@@sid2112 That's a very nice thing to write. This morning when I saw your post I took the time to watch the interview again. it was just as fascinating as the first time that I came across it.
@@seanwebb605 You have value my friend. I value you, Issac would've valued you. And the world needs you man. It just wouldn't be the same without old Sid and Sean walking around!
@Mickelodian Surname Asimov was the biggest influence in my life. He's the reason I became a scientist. I first read the Foundation Trilogy in 1958, when I was 8 years old. I read his entire fiction writings multiple times. Most of his science writing as well. I'm so happy that I got to meet him in person at the World Science Fiction Convention in Toronto in 1973. The fact that he actually laughed at some of my puns will give me immense joy until my dying day...
@@ashroskell After watching the first 4 episodes, I'm not that impressed. I've read the Foundation series twice, just for the sheer entertainment value, and I'm not sure I can endure much more of this series. It has a tenuous relationship to the novels, and now that I hear it's already been renewed for a second season, I'm even less enthused...
not very close. some places and characters and a general connection to the idea of psychohistory...but it takes a alot of creative liberties and many parts are completely invented @@sewellanne
He came very, very close to predicting the internet. He didn't imagine smart phones exactly, but he predicted that massive amounts of data would be available to all people via electronic communication on personal devices. Such a brilliant man.
@@leonsantamaria9845- Nobody thinks Asimov was the first to predict advances in technology. Tesla was a clever fellow, but not always right about the direction of technology. He thought radio would be used to transmit electric power, but overlooked its true importance as a transmitter of information. A better comparison to Asimov would be Jules Verne.
Yeh he was one of the great scifi writer But his writing style is overhelming Often story is short but it is slow I prefer arthur clark and robert heinlein I like philip dick but his books are very confusing
Have you noticed how in interviews the interviewers literally speak to him like he is an oracle that can see the future or is from the future. This interview and his one with Letterman. It obviously became evident that he was correct on so much of this.
I think the genius of Asimov is something that will be appreciated by future generations in a way that you and I can never get to see in our short lifetimes? I think he had a plan, like his character Hari Seldon, in the Foundation series? Think about it? Have you read his books on physics? Have you read his annotations on the Bible? What Christian scholar is likely to read that, from an atheist and then site it in a paper they want the Vatican’s scholarship to take seriously? He was a Renaissance man, writing so eclectically, with a plan in mind. Like so many other writers who were never fully appreciated in their own lifetimes, he knew that the discoveries of later ages would vindicate much of his work. And he knew that being prolific on as many topics as possible would make him accessible to the widest possible audience. His name will become like that of Socrates, Einstein or Descartes. His plan was to be like Hardin; to plan for a future beyond his own lifetime, by many generations; but instead of shepherding humanity toward a goal, he will become a great philosopher, to whom so many people look back and remember as one of planet Earth’s greatest minds. Most of the greatest writers never even knew success in their own lifetimes. And of those who did, very few could have foreseen their worldwide influence. I think he planned for something greater than you and I will live to see?
He was in with the people directing the mess we're in now...they tell us what they are up to through literature and movies, it's called predictive programming.
Isaac Asimov is one of my personal all time favorite humans. We are all better that he lived during our lifetime. He was always ahead of his time mostly for not living in the past or present but believing that the advancements of the future will come to past and helping us imagine what the future will look like.
What seems truly astounding, to me, is that many of Asimov's works were non-fiction. These books take lots of reading, and research, to write. I could understand him writing endless volumes of fiction -- which need only an educated imagination and a writing tool -- but to write THOROUGHLY RESEARCHED factual books at such a blistering pace is simply incredible.
To me, writing many works of fiction is the more impressive feat. Asimov’s nonfiction works on subjects in science are for the general reader who is interested in science, so not highly technical. For a person of his education (PhD in biochemistry), the material would be easy, and the advantage of a nonfiction subject is that the organization of the work follows naturally from the thing under consideration. A few of his nonfiction works would have required more research and time than average, such as his two-volume treatise on The Bible.
I agree with both of you, but I think the most interesting thing about his body of work is that there's a grey area between his fiction and nonfiction, and within that grey area more of the fiction is becoming nonfiction year after year lol. It speaks not only to the level of research and analysis he was capable of, but also the level of insight he could glean from it it all in order to draw conclusions and inferences on the future.
I have been reading his books since last year. Started with the Foundation series and now have almost completed the Robot series. His ideas and thoughts are so wildly modern that it seems impossible to comprehend that those are back from the 1950s. But it is not entirely unimaginable, human population has grown duller as a whole. Its always periodic , the growth and decline..as evident in his books. I read his books to experience a distant time in human history when humans have colonised different planets and it feels real.
I just got a used copy of Asimov’s Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan (the book is out of print). It contains the complete librettos, with his explanations of unusual vocabulary and other useful commentary, almost all of it on Gilbert’s text, virtually nothing on the music. Well worth having. As I look back, it’s remarkable how much of my vocabulary was learned from those texts.
It's funny too because I think, it's because he had the unique ability to truly pay attention to it all at a level most aren't capable of, including myself. His powers of reason and his abiliity to share a rational opinion of it all. Truly incredible.
Relevant to the political climate of today, Asimov was a socialist who saw the societal impact of robots/automation from the viewpoint of the worker and suggested ways for society to help workers retrain and refocus their skills toward endeavors which would not be easily be automated. Further he recognized that there would be a segment of society that would not be employable....and offered ideas to help them live fulfilling lives as well. These problems remain today, and there are not enough people like Asimov asking tough questions and trying to come up with solutions for them. The focus is instead on making profits and short term gains....the future and sustainability be damned.
such a brilliant author, imo the best by quite a bit at writing sci-fi... Man, I wish I could have a conversation with him and pick his brain and ask questions... sadly I will never have the opportunity.
I think the thing underappreciated is his prediction of AI (positronic brain) which was not named directly but he was aware that the computers we use are not adequate systems to base advanced robotics on.
And modern day ai researchers are building an a.i table templated in the style of the periodic table to solve this problem isaac asimov hinted upon he was way way way ahead of his time
Ryan Clark Can I suggest you learn how to spell, use grammar and stop screaming your current ideology in caps... It might give people the impression that Donald Trump supporters are uneducated, loud obnoxious morons.
@Greg Wallace the stock market just hit 28000 and deregulation has made business a lot easier. The impeachment BS is falling apart and the Democrats have no candidate that can beat him. Your post didn't age well, I hope against hope these last two years have changed your mind. Socialism never works my friend.
He was right on target about over population. Our roads are jammed, housing is now a overpriced commodity, living wage jobs are scarce, the planet cannot sustain the number of people. The job crisis, energy, housing, education and all our infrastructure issues are symptoms of the over population problem. We are in big trouble.
I absolutely love this man! His vision and and imagination is genius+... Is a sad commentary on society that there are only 264 comments on this 6 year old video.
@@prettynoose8497 Average life expectancy increased by 20 years in some nations. In countries like China and India, it increased by about 10 years, after this interview took place. All because of their industrial revolution, and in the Middle East/Africa too, the world's population increased by a lot. And the population in the West increased at a fine after the babyboom generation, only our life expectancies increased too. But it has been stagnating in the last few years.
@@TheJacklwilliams Mother Earth tends to balance things out, though. We should not see 10 billion people on the Earth (at least not in my lifetime, I'm 49 years old and will have eaten shit and been long long dead before that happens). But same goes to show why the % of 7 foot people has not changed for the last 85 some years either
@A R Exactly. Great to hear Isaac say that. Imagine how much better the world would be if we all thought of ourselves as Humans. I just happen to be Australian but who gives a f***? I don't. I look at everyone else as fellow humans ....because we all are !!
Asimov is/was amazing. This poor guy interviewing him is so lost and filled with silly notions (overpopulation is a problem?). Thank you so much for posting this. Hopefully there will be a new wave of readers who can appreciate Asimov, Heinlein, Herbert. Lords know we need them today more than ever.
Funny, we all take so many things from the same interview. I thought, Rose was simply being a good interviewer and comments as such were irony or an attempt to draw Isaac out on a particular thought/topic. I alway's enjoyed Rose's interviewing style. Many saw him in a different light.
Is that the name of Asimov’s character who conceived the Foundation? If so, I think you’ve nailed it. Not only did he plan it, but he told us about it, by depicting a fictionalised version of his plan. The difference being that Asimov didn’t (to our current knowledge?) plan to shepherd humanity through its evolution of interstellar growth, demise and refounding, but he did know that he would be rediscovered, many generations from now. He planned to have his name become known to future generations in the way that we think of Socrates, Montaigne and Einstein today. All it takes is one scholar, say, writing their thesis for a paper in the Vatican, who comes across an oddity and says, “The Complete Annotations of the Christian Bible, by an atheist? How odd? Computer, tell me of any other works by this author and what category he was known for?” And when the computer tells him there are over 500 books and twice as many articles, written by the same man, and that there is no category to which they can be assigned? . . . There are as many potential ways for his name to become referenced and talked about, as there are categories of disciplines and artistic expression. How can he NOT be the preeminent Renaissance Man of the 20th Century, who’s name will become a household word, to generations not yet conceived? . . . Now, that’s genius, right?
Sadly Isaac Asimov still foresees humans working. Me personally thinks we can do other things then work. But I respect him a lot and have some of his books.
Seriously? Charlie Rose is one of the best interviewers out there. Just because he's not exceptionally knowledgeable about EVERYTHING doesn't make him "ignorant". Sheesh!
He’s being modest. He’s actually a terrific writer. However, it’s been over three decades since this interview and his predictions about job displacement from robots have not exactly played out.
Not entirely how he saw it, no. Robots have supplemented a lot of the labour of humans, rather than replaced it. However, it's been a lot more difficult to build truly intelligent machines and refined robotic capable of replacing humans in a lot of areas. Any variation or judgement call in a task adds a layer of complexity that can cripple our most advanced robotics. I think we're still on the cusp of a true labour replacement. This is something that's going to start slow and then snowball quite quickly.
But he was correct about jobs being lost. We as an American society, did not address the up coming problems like we should have. Now we have homeless people in our cities, jobless people, working poor with 3 jobs to make ends meet. The free market didn't address all these issues as promised. Sad. Mr. Asimov would be very disappointed to see what happened in 2019.
Very interesting interview, especially his views on Religion ( about from 14:10 on ) Because of his earlier written statements of religiosity there are a lot of contradictive views about Asimov around. But it was a bit insansitive how he was asked to his view on Jesus Christus; after all the Asimov war born and raised to the Jewish believes. To those the true Messiah is still comming. But luckily Asimov was above that Jusr saying this question about Jesus could had been phrased a bit more sensitve here.
The irony there is we are now heading, statistically, towards a population collapse unlike any in our history. The birthrates worldwide are leading to some mathematical outcomes that could be even tougher to deal with than overpopulation. However, I'd say the one thing our generation and those after have in common with every other one, is, the end is always near. There is always a catastrophe to deal with, and always looming disasters. In the midst of it all, our behavior alone usually the worst thing we have to deal with and somehow navigate.
Asimov wrote ten times more books in his lifetime than most Americans read in their lifetime. That statistic alone is crazy. Although to be fair book reading only began to decline in the last decade... but even so his sheer prolific nature is astounding. This is also the man who is almost single handedly responsible for my career path.
Mickelodian Surname I don’t think very much of myself when I watch an interview with Asimov.
@@seanwebb605 I knew Asimov. He would disagree, he would've thought you were singularly valuable just being here. Issac was one hell of a nice guy. Heinlein and Asimov together (wow what a convention!) was a conversation amongst gods.
@@sid2112 That's a very nice thing to write. This morning when I saw your post I took the time to watch the interview again. it was just as fascinating as the first time that I came across it.
@@seanwebb605 You have value my friend. I value you, Issac would've valued you. And the world needs you man. It just wouldn't be the same without old Sid and Sean walking around!
@Mickelodian Surname Asimov was the biggest influence in my life. He's the reason I became a scientist. I first read the Foundation Trilogy in 1958, when I was 8 years old. I read his entire fiction writings multiple times. Most of his science writing as well. I'm so happy that I got to meet him in person at the World Science Fiction Convention in Toronto in 1973. The fact that he actually laughed at some of my puns will give me immense joy until my dying day...
This man was so ahead of his time its unbelievable. Love the Foundation books
Have you seen the trailers for the TV show, here on UA-cam? What did you think? Excited?
@@ashroskell After watching the first 4 episodes, I'm not that impressed. I've read the Foundation series twice, just for the sheer entertainment value, and I'm not sure I can endure much more of this series. It has a tenuous relationship to the novels, and now that I hear it's already been renewed for a second season, I'm even less enthused...
Are you watching the TV series of Foundation? Its been so long since I read the books, I wonder how close it is to the story.
His astrology chart is fascinating. Aquarius Mid Heaven & Gemini Rising.
not very close. some places and characters and a general connection to the idea of psychohistory...but it takes a alot of creative liberties and many parts are completely invented @@sewellanne
He came very, very close to predicting the internet.
He didn't imagine smart phones exactly, but he predicted that massive amounts of data would be available to all people via electronic communication on personal devices.
Such a brilliant man.
Check out a very very early interview of his on David Letterman's show. He literally predicts UA-cam.
Well, master Nikola Tesla mention long time ago about, the future of the technology, professor lsaac Asimov, l like him .. but is no the first.
@@leonsantamaria9845- Nobody thinks Asimov was the first to predict advances in technology. Tesla was a clever fellow, but not always right about the direction of technology. He thought radio would be used to transmit electric power, but overlooked its true importance as a transmitter of information.
A better comparison to Asimov would be Jules Verne.
For a sci-fi genius, Asimov is very "down to Earth".
And he had the coolest sideburns !! :-)
@@jubalcalif9100 Muttonchops!
@@someguy9597 Indubitably !! :-)
honestly he was just a regular ass genius.
Yeh he was one of the great scifi writer
But his writing style is overhelming
Often story is short but it is slow
I prefer arthur clark and robert heinlein
I like philip dick but his books are very confusing
Have you noticed how in interviews the interviewers literally speak to him like he is an oracle that can see the future or is from the future. This interview and his one with Letterman.
It obviously became evident that he was correct on so much of this.
Haha that interviewer has been sniffing more than hypocrisy
I think the genius of Asimov is something that will be appreciated by future generations in a way that you and I can never get to see in our short lifetimes? I think he had a plan, like his character Hari Seldon, in the Foundation series? Think about it? Have you read his books on physics? Have you read his annotations on the Bible? What Christian scholar is likely to read that, from an atheist and then site it in a paper they want the Vatican’s scholarship to take seriously? He was a Renaissance man, writing so eclectically, with a plan in mind. Like so many other writers who were never fully appreciated in their own lifetimes, he knew that the discoveries of later ages would vindicate much of his work. And he knew that being prolific on as many topics as possible would make him accessible to the widest possible audience. His name will become like that of Socrates, Einstein or Descartes. His plan was to be like Hardin; to plan for a future beyond his own lifetime, by many generations; but instead of shepherding humanity toward a goal, he will become a great philosopher, to whom so many people look back and remember as one of planet Earth’s greatest minds. Most of the greatest writers never even knew success in their own lifetimes. And of those who did, very few could have foreseen their worldwide influence. I think he planned for something greater than you and I will live to see?
@@APerchOfPillows : Are you 10 years old?
He was in with the people directing the mess we're in now...they tell us what they are up to through literature and movies, it's called predictive programming.
Isaac Asimov is one of my personal all time favorite humans. We are all better that he lived during our lifetime. He was always ahead of his time mostly for not living in the past or present but believing that the advancements of the future will come to past and helping us imagine what the future will look like.
What seems truly astounding, to me, is that many of Asimov's works were non-fiction. These books take lots of reading, and research, to write. I could understand him writing endless volumes of fiction -- which need only an educated imagination and a writing tool -- but to write THOROUGHLY RESEARCHED factual books at such a blistering pace is simply incredible.
To me, writing many works of fiction is the more impressive feat. Asimov’s nonfiction works on subjects in science are for the general reader who is interested in science, so not highly technical. For a person of his education (PhD in biochemistry), the material would be easy, and the advantage of a nonfiction subject is that the organization of the work follows naturally from the thing under consideration. A few of his nonfiction works would have required more research and time than average, such as his two-volume treatise on The Bible.
I agree with both of you, but I think the most interesting thing about his body of work is that there's a grey area between his fiction and nonfiction, and within that grey area more of the fiction is becoming nonfiction year after year lol. It speaks not only to the level of research and analysis he was capable of, but also the level of insight he could glean from it it all in order to draw conclusions and inferences on the future.
I have been reading his books since last year. Started with the Foundation series and now have almost completed the Robot series. His ideas and thoughts are so wildly modern that it seems impossible to comprehend that those are back from the 1950s. But it is not entirely unimaginable, human population has grown duller as a whole. Its always periodic , the growth and decline..as evident in his books. I read his books to experience a distant time in human history when humans have colonised different planets and it feels real.
A bona fide and certified genius, scientist, and one of the Grand Masters of Science-Fiction.. Respect!
What an amazing human being.
I have a notion to second that emotion !!
Knowing Isaac's a fan of Gilbert and Sullivan is just downright heartwarming.
"I am the monarch of the sea! The ruler of the Queen's navy!"
I love this bloke. His death was a dark dark day for Sci Fi. The world lost a genuinly lovely bloke.
the maner of his death even more so
What is a bloke?
What a wonderful human being !
I agree 100 per cent !!
Thanks for sharing this interview. Much respect to Isaac Asimov, an inspiration in my life. Professional, Prophetic, Prolific.
Robots should only do the jobs that humans ought not to do, because it under uses the brain.
-- I. Asimov
And yet look at the amazing things that predictive AI can do, seeing trends and analyzing data that we didn’t even think to do.
Thank you so much for this Charlie Rose interview with Isaac Asimov.
I heartily concur !!
At around 7:20 Asimov says that he would like to do a book on Gilbert & Sullivan. As it turned out, he DID write a book on G & S, published in 1988.
I just got a used copy of Asimov’s Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan (the book is out of print). It contains the complete librettos, with his explanations of unusual vocabulary and other useful commentary, almost all of it on Gilbert’s text, virtually nothing on the music. Well worth having. As I look back, it’s remarkable how much of my vocabulary was learned from those texts.
Foundation - tv show on Apple TV+ is so amazing.
I love the world he built for us 🚀🥰🚀
Please read the books. The show is not Asimov.
i have huge respect for asimov now and his views on bible and religion couldn't have said it better
Hes the devil
Great interview! Time is a MONSTER...
This dude calls it so accurately on the future. Amazing
It's funny too because I think, it's because he had the unique ability to truly pay attention to it all at a level most aren't capable of, including myself. His powers of reason and his abiliity to share a rational opinion of it all. Truly incredible.
His genius was to explain deep heavy science in a perfectly understandable manner.
The Great Explainer!
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Thank you to the Asimov family for existing. 🙏
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Amazing he predicted this almost 35 years ago , im watching this in May 2020 who else ?/
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Why have I not searched for this before? Thank you for posting this.
As usual, Rose allots himself equal time
33 yrs later ( today ) his visions of the world are so up-to-date now..he speaks and noone notices that , such interview took place 30 plus yrs ago
Relevant to the political climate of today, Asimov was a socialist who saw the societal impact of robots/automation from the viewpoint of the worker and suggested ways for society to help workers retrain and refocus their skills toward endeavors which would not be easily be automated. Further he recognized that there would be a segment of society that would not be employable....and offered ideas to help them live fulfilling lives as well. These problems remain today, and there are not enough people like Asimov asking tough questions and trying to come up with solutions for them. The focus is instead on making profits and short term gains....the future and sustainability be damned.
Inevitable
such a brilliant author, imo the best by quite a bit at writing sci-fi... Man, I wish I could have a conversation with him and pick his brain and ask questions... sadly I will never have the opportunity.
Didn't know got this voice, thats the kind of men that has got to last 100 years, fore ahead his time ♥️♥️♥️
I just realized that when haleys comet returns I’ll be older than either of these two men were when this was filmed.
I have read many of his books as a youngster, I'm a huge fan of his works.
I think the thing underappreciated is his prediction of AI (positronic brain) which was not named directly but he was aware that the computers we use are not adequate systems to base advanced robotics on.
And modern day ai researchers are building an a.i table templated in the style of the periodic table to solve this problem isaac asimov hinted upon he was way way way ahead of his time
Now I want to write book .after listening to Sir Issac Asimov.
Isaac Asimov: super brainy, compassionate, funny.
Imagine our world with every country a democracy and an Isaac Asimov as president.
Ryan Clark Can I suggest you learn how to spell, use grammar and stop screaming your current ideology in caps... It might give people the impression that Donald Trump supporters are uneducated, loud obnoxious morons.
Sure but Trump has better words. He knows lots of words.
jacquelineandron Foundation xd
jacquelineandron it would be chaos a democracy by itself is no good a Democratic Republic with a Constitution like the US would be the best
@Greg Wallace the stock market just hit 28000 and deregulation has made business a lot easier. The impeachment BS is falling apart and the Democrats have no candidate that can beat him. Your post didn't age well, I hope against hope these last two years have changed your mind. Socialism never works my friend.
"I am getting old now that I'm a little over 30" lol
Literally what I tell people scinsce I turned 28. I am old. Young is over when you hit 18.
Depending on what we are counting as a book, he might have written more books than I have read! That's just depressing...
You could look at it as motivating too, you know.
He was right on target about over population. Our roads are jammed, housing is now a overpriced commodity, living wage jobs are scarce, the planet cannot sustain the number of people. The job crisis, energy, housing, education and all our infrastructure issues are symptoms of the over population problem. We are in big trouble.
we humans are okay with that.. we love our junkyards, sporting events, “booming real estate”, waiting in line.. etc, YAY!!!
Doubleday needs to reprint Asimov's Annotated "Don Juan". It's selling for 449 dollars on Amazon at the time of this writing.
i wish i started reading seriously earlier, i hated reading when i was young, now i see how important it is
Great that you've discovered Isaac.
Read him and your life will be the richer for it.
audiobooks
@@keithforbes4544 Reading is better but I admit audio books are enjoyable.
He was an excellent interviewer.
Resource based economy, closer everyday, for a better future.
So irritating when the interviewer interrupts Asimov, he does it too much.
Rules of TV require dynamics, the program time was very limited
I-Click-As-I-Move. Isaac, my Hero. What a mind - more than 20 years ago.
I hated the fact that in school you had to do book reports and on the allowed list asimovs books where not on it.
They did not have that restriction in my school growing up.
Meanwhile my school library was where I found The Foundation trilogy.
3 mins in, the job loss and solution is succinct. Describes the modern automation versus jobs situation 35 years prior.
Brilliant man, it was a tragedy what took him down...
Hes the devil. If u look up his name spelled forward and backwards satanic websites come up
I absolutely love this man! His vision and and imagination is genius+... Is a sad commentary on society that there are only 264 comments on this 6 year old video.
What Isaac says about robots is happening now with artifitial intelligence.
Yup.
16:06 "We've got now 4.8 billion people"
We're screwed!
How the shit did we nearly double that in only 35 years?!?
@@prettynoose8497
Average life expectancy increased by 20 years in some nations. In countries like China and India, it increased by about 10 years, after this interview took place.
All because of their industrial revolution, and in the Middle East/Africa too, the world's population increased by a lot.
And the population in the West increased at a fine after the babyboom generation, only our life expectancies increased too. But it has been stagnating in the last few years.
@@prettynoose8497 Makes you realise that Thanos' efforts would have been undermined in 30 years or so haha
@@prettynoose8497 Fibonacci math, lol... Not quite as efficient as rabbits but nonetheless...
@@TheJacklwilliams Mother Earth tends to balance things out, though. We should not see 10 billion people on the Earth (at least not in my lifetime, I'm 49 years old and will have eaten shit and been long long dead before that happens). But same goes to show why the % of 7 foot people has not changed for the last 85 some years either
he is a fellow that enjoyed reading what that fellow enjoyed writing :)
I sit at your feet Sir and I listen ❤️
How do you do it ? By doing nothing else O.O
9:59
"It doesn't matter the nationality"
If everybody could think at least that way...
@A R
Exactly. Great to hear Isaac say that.
Imagine how much better the world would be if we all thought of ourselves as Humans. I just happen to be Australian but who gives a f***? I don't.
I look at everyone else as fellow humans ....because we all are !!
There are interviewers who machine gunners with questions and this interviewer is one of them, constantly interrupting Asimov.
Asimov is/was amazing. This poor guy interviewing him is so lost and filled with silly notions (overpopulation is a problem?). Thank you so much for posting this. Hopefully there will be a new wave of readers who can appreciate Asimov, Heinlein, Herbert. Lords know we need them today more than ever.
Funny, we all take so many things from the same interview. I thought, Rose was simply being a good interviewer and comments as such were irony or an attempt to draw Isaac out on a particular thought/topic. I alway's enjoyed Rose's interviewing style. Many saw him in a different light.
@@TheJacklwilliams I agree, to be a good interview, everyone needs to understand.
Rose was a good interviewer. His job was to get his guest to talk. Asimov is the expert here.
Just an observation, his hands are completely wrinkle free and smooth.
Imagine 20 minutes dedicated to science and science-fiction nowadays.................................
He was the best!
4.8 billion people in 1985 damn..
What a fucking legend.
So, Asimov was actually Hari Seldon...
yes :-)
Is that the name of Asimov’s character who conceived the Foundation? If so, I think you’ve nailed it. Not only did he plan it, but he told us about it, by depicting a fictionalised version of his plan. The difference being that Asimov didn’t (to our current knowledge?) plan to shepherd humanity through its evolution of interstellar growth, demise and refounding, but he did know that he would be rediscovered, many generations from now. He planned to have his name become known to future generations in the way that we think of Socrates, Montaigne and Einstein today. All it takes is one scholar, say, writing their thesis for a paper in the Vatican, who comes across an oddity and says, “The Complete Annotations of the Christian Bible, by an atheist? How odd? Computer, tell me of any other works by this author and what category he was known for?” And when the computer tells him there are over 500 books and twice as many articles, written by the same man, and that there is no category to which they can be assigned? . . . There are as many potential ways for his name to become referenced and talked about, as there are categories of disciplines and artistic expression. How can he NOT be the preeminent Renaissance Man of the 20th Century, who’s name will become a household word, to generations not yet conceived? . . . Now, that’s genius, right?
...here's one fellow who got a lot of pleasure out of writing...
Charlie the-Bloom-is-off-the Rose.
Ahead of his time the great Asimov
FOUNDATION!!!!! Thanks Apple!!!!
So much of his work is out of print and used copies of the books are exceedingly highly priced.
I’ve been re reading all his robot and foundation series free online these days
A TITAN -one on a million
So very true ! What a mind ! What a long & prolific career ! Awesome and amazing ! :-)
HE WAS A GREAT WRITER
Someone I admire deeply. The grandaddy of all Nerds 🙂
Isaac Asimov, had been a huge colossal autor
On Earth, be sure about that.
Isaac Asimov 1985: "In 15 years a great deal of the office work will be automated"
Microsoft in September 1985: "Sure...15 years...." *releases Excel*
0:38 - shit. my heart just melts.
Maybe those sideburns will come back in style before the end of the world.
Sadly Isaac Asimov still foresees humans working. Me personally thinks we can do other things then work.
But I respect him a lot and have some of his books.
love
The End of Eternity.
Isaac Asimo😍🌏🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥v a highly successful writer,best jnown for fis wkrks of dcience fiction wrote and edited around 500 books📔📕📗🌐
My wife insists that I talk to her sometimes 😂
That was one fascinating cat.
The best writer syfy ever
Iridium is use in spark plugs.
True PROPHET
in my opinion
Hes the devil
Charlie Rose is a pain all over. Let the guest talk! "Well, seventy-five plus eighty-five is, what?"
How did he predict to accurately ... Technology, Overpopulation etc..We are a failed species marching willingly to our doom
Also the interviewer missed his joke...19:08 ...shame on him
Wrote over 500 books in his lifetime
Yang gang!
very bad and ignorant questions by the interviewer...
Isaac Asimov handles him very well!
yes.his way of questioning is amateurish.
Seriously? Charlie Rose is one of the best interviewers out there. Just because he's not exceptionally knowledgeable about EVERYTHING doesn't make him "ignorant". Sheesh!
he is totally missing the point that makes Asimov what he is. He focuses way to much on the trivial things.
What Dr. Asimov failed to say was the ability of machines to be creative and make art.
Today, that's happening now.
Can't believe, everything he said 35 years back now is all true.
Some conventional and radical people hate him
Hes is satan
@@jessicamata9575 haha may be yes😁
He’s being modest. He’s actually a terrific writer. However, it’s been over three decades since this interview and his predictions about job displacement from robots have not exactly played out.
Not entirely how he saw it, no. Robots have supplemented a lot of the labour of humans, rather than replaced it. However, it's been a lot more difficult to build truly intelligent machines and refined robotic capable of replacing humans in a lot of areas. Any variation or judgement call in a task adds a layer of complexity that can cripple our most advanced robotics. I think we're still on the cusp of a true labour replacement. This is something that's going to start slow and then snowball quite quickly.
Yet.
But he was correct about jobs being lost. We as an American society, did not address the up coming problems like we should have. Now we have homeless people in our cities, jobless people, working poor with 3 jobs to make ends meet. The free market didn't address all these issues as promised. Sad. Mr. Asimov would be very disappointed to see what happened in 2019.
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Very interesting interview, especially his views on Religion ( about from 14:10 on ) Because of his earlier written statements of religiosity there are a lot of contradictive views about Asimov around.
But it was a bit insansitive how he was asked to his view on Jesus Christus; after all the Asimov war born and raised to the Jewish believes. To those the true Messiah is still comming.
But luckily Asimov was above that Jusr saying this question about Jesus could had been phrased a bit more sensitve here.
Rose sure jumped away from the overpopulation topic like it was a hot stove.
The irony there is we are now heading, statistically, towards a population collapse unlike any in our history. The birthrates worldwide are leading to some mathematical outcomes that could be even tougher to deal with than overpopulation. However, I'd say the one thing our generation and those after have in common with every other one, is, the end is always near. There is always a catastrophe to deal with, and always looming disasters. In the midst of it all, our behavior alone usually the worst thing we have to deal with and somehow navigate.
@@TheJacklwilliamspriced out into extinction
Him and Bernie Sanders have the same accent.
Civil Protection what else do they have in common...? 🤔
They are both from Brooklyn (Asimov immigrated at a young age.).
The interviewer keeps interrupting him quite annoying maybe he should casually undress a little for chuck to get his undivided attention
Solid burn, dude. 🙂
Asimov is often asked to predict the future. I wonder these requests motivated the invention of phycho-history.
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Sad to know he had to hide the fact that he was sick then.
He comes Charlie, again with his low-key religious undertones.
change the word robot with A.I. and talk to you again in a few decades about his works