Today's robots are very primitive, capable of understanding only a few simple instructions such as 'go left', 'go right', and 'build car'.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only more expensive.

I have a kind of standard explanation why, which goes like this: Science fiction is one way of making sense out of a senseless world.

I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.

Whatever I'm reading at the moment seems to influence whatever I'm writing.

Today's robots are very primitive, capable of understanding only a few simple instructions such as 'go left', 'go right', and 'build car'.

People have laughed at all great inventors and discoverers.