The Feeling of Power (Asimov, 1958)

HelloUsername 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Previous discussion 09.nov.2009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=931273 32 comments

It hits very differently in 2026 with people outsourcing their thinking to AI

There's some more discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/asimov/comments/1u76f8l/the_feeling...

	▲	imron 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Profession (also by Asimov) takes it even further - https://www.abelard.org/asimov.php

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irdc 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Oops, link got munged. Should be: https://archive.org/details/1958-02_IF/page/4/mode/2up

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thriving_earthw 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Epub version is 170mb — is there an easy way to compress or download in a format I can send to an e-reader?

	▲	sogen 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		found a light 18k ePub version here: https://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~friedan/physics_readings/As... and a text version here: https://hex.ooo/library/power.html

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aghuang 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Would like to know the thoughts of others around this book who are looking at this in 2026 vs 2009.

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alabut 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Reminds me of the Butlerian Jihad in Dune and how the anti-ai revolt led to the rise of human thinking machines. They're the ones that roll back their eyes in the movies when they're calculating.

	▲	euroderf 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		In the Lynch version the mentat Thufir has a short rap where he is getting the house's defensive systems in order. Cool stuff. "Sector six-eighty, copy the sixth the sum of the eighth quadrant of the ninth plus eight-four circles weave the eighth quarter the fourth, copy!"