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Aw, someone at the Economist is a sci-fi nerd: all the subheds in the story are titles of Isaac Asimov stories (or spoofs of said titles).
by jfruh 15y ago
Aw, someone at the Economist is a sci-fi nerd: all the subheds in the story are titles of Isaac Asimov stories (or spoofs of said titles).
- samuelj5 15y agoMIT sucks and is for losers. Go to Stanford.
- troymc 15y agoI hadn't noticed that until the last subheading: The chips, like dust -- references The Stars, Like Dust, a 1951 book by Asimov. And then the rest became clear: Empire and foundry-nation -- probably a play on Foundation and Empire, the second novel in Asimov's Foundation Trilogy. "The Dead Past" is an Asimov short story first published in 1956. "The Wedge" is a short story Asimov published in 1944. "Birth of a Notion" is a 1976 short story by Asimov.