The Year 2025 in Science Fiction
Here’s how science fiction novels and movies imagined the year 2025. Science fiction vs reality: what actually happened?
You created a robot. Then it denied that you created it. Would you torture it forever?
Let’s say you’re a highly skilled robot engineer who has just created a robot capable of thinking, feeling emotions, and experiencing pain. However, there’s a small problem: it stubbornly denies that you created it. Would you torture it just for…
I asked ChatGPT to draw a picture of Dors Venabili. Here’s the result
The title explains itself… I just typed “Can you draw a picture of Dors Venabili?” Dors Venabili is a character from Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series. Here’s what it produced (pretty good, I think). What do you think?
Eratosthenes calculated the Earth’s circumference more than 2,200 years ago [Here’s how]
In an era long before satellites and advanced technology, an ancient Greek mathematician named Eratosthenes accomplished an extraordinary feat – he calculated the Earth’s circumference with remarkable accuracy, even without leaving Egypt. Armed only with a stick, the angle of…
Are we alone in the Universe? Probably. Like the others.
Are we alone in the Universe? The American cartoonist Matthew Inman published a brilliant comic titled “The Oracle” on his website “The Oatmeal”. Inman’s comic gives the most probable answer (IMHO) to the Fermi Paradox, which can be summarized in…
What If We Changed the Order of Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics?
![By altering the hierarchy of Three Laws of Robotics [Asimov], we venture into uncharted territories of ethical conundrums.](https://i0.wp.com/ozgurnevres.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Asimov-Three-laws-of-robotics-robot-human-header.jpg?fit=768%2C432&ssl=1)
In science fiction, few concepts have sparked as much intrigue and debate as Isaac Asimov‘s Three Laws of Robotics. These laws, designed to govern the behavior of artificial intelligence, have stood as a cornerstone in the discussion of robotic ethics.…
Isaac Asimov explains the Three Laws of Robotics [Video]
Dr. Isaac Asimov was a renowned science fiction author and is also known for his contributions to the field of robotics. In a video that has now become a classic, Dr. Asimov explains the Three Laws of Robotics that he…
There is most probably no Kardashev Type III civilization in the Universe. Here’s why.
In 1964, Russian astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev (April 25, 1932 – August 3, 2019) defined three levels of civilizations, based on the order of magnitude of power available to them (known as the Kardashev scale):
Galileo Gambit: No, Your “Theory*” Being Rejected Doesn’t Make You Right
![Galileo Gambit [Galileo Fallacy] explained. A portraiit of Galileo Galilei.](https://i0.wp.com/ozgurnevres.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Galileo-Galilei.jpg?fit=768%2C432&ssl=1)
The “Galileo Gambit” (also known as the “Galileo Fallacy”) refers to a rhetorical strategy or logical fallacy where someone claims that if their ideas or theories are ridiculed or rejected by the mainstream, then they must be correct, or at…
You found Pascal! [Joke about physics]
Albert Einstein, Sir Isaac Newton, and Blaise Pascal are hanging out one afternoon. Einstein is bored, so he suggests, “Let’s play hide and seek! I’ll be it!”.
Heisenberg, Schrödinger, and Ohm are in a car [Joke about physics]
Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger, and Georg Ohm are in a car and they get pulled over. Heisenberg is the driver and the police officer asks him: “Do you know how fast you were going?”
I did my own research [No, you didn’t]
Understanding the true essence of research is critical in an era bombarded with information. The phrase “I did my own research” is often misused in today’s digital landscape, where access to data is just a click away. Genuine research is…