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Naomi K
May 07, 2012
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I just finished reading William Gibson's essay collection Distrust That Particular Flavor. And towards the end, I ran across a passage that made me realize something: many science fiction writers actually care about technology. The passage was:

Isaac Asimov wrote a whole shelf of novels working out a set of  hardwired ethics for intelligent robots, but I…

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