The Feeling of Power Summary I do think that the author accurately describes selecting principles In the novel. Some examples could be the dissipation society of the future, and the conflict of war. Some items from the story that can be found now could be Pub's pad of papers he used to write and solve problems on. THE FEELING OF POWER by Isaac Asimov JEHAN SHUMAN was used to dealing with the men in authority on long-embattled Earth.
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Author | Isaac Asimov |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre(s) | Science fiction |
Published in | If |
Publisher | Quinn Publishing |
Media type | Magazine |
Publication date | February 1958 |
'The Feeling of Power' is a science fictionshort story by American writer Isaac Asimov. The story first appeared in the February 1958 issue of If: Worlds of Science Fiction, and was reprinted in the 1959 collection Nine Tomorrows, the 1969 retrospective Opus 100, and the 1986 collection Robot Dreams. In the introduction to Robot Visions, Asimov lists this story as one of the notable robot stories.
The story is representative of genre of sci-fi started at the 50s as reaction to computers around the theme of caution against human mental atrophy in the computers era, like Arthur Clarke's 'Into the Comet' of 1960.[1]
Plot summary[edit]
In the distant future, humans live in a computer-aided society and have forgotten the fundamentals of mathematics, including even the rudimentary skill of counting.
The Terrestrial Federation is at war with Deneb, and the war is conducted by long-range weapons controlled by computers which are expensive and hard to replace. Myron Aub, a low grade Technician, discovers how to reverse-engineer the principles of pencil-and-paper arithmetic by studying the workings of ancient computers which were programmed by human beings, before bootstrapping became the norm—a development which is later dubbed 'Graphitics'. The discovery is appropriated by the military establishment, who use it to re-invent their understanding of mathematics. They also plan to replace their computer-operated ships with lower cost, more expendable (in their opinion) manned ships to continue the war.
Aub is so upset by the appropriation of his discovery for military purposes that he commits suicide. As Aub's funeral proceeds, his supervisor realizes that even with Aub dead, the advancement of Graphitics is unstoppable. He executes simple multiplications in his mind without help from any machine, which gives him a great feeling of power.
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- ^'Into the Comet', Wikipedia, 2019-06-16, retrieved 2019-07-13
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