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...problem is ! like saying there's a bad leak in your end of the boat." Of course, hundreds of futurists share that insight. Some of them, when pressed hard enough, may even present a solution or two. That is the Asimov difference: without prompting, he offers remedies by the ream. The man who predicted assembly-line robotics in 1939, coined the term psychohistory -- "the prediction of future trends in history through mathematical analysis" -- in 1941, and foresaw the computer revolution in 1950 not only faces tomorrow, he also embraces...
...hard hat, and a dirty cloth is stretched across his mouth and nose. "My wife was crying when I told her I'd be going out," he says, leaning against the force of the water. "But I love it out here. It's just me against this fire." Bill Ream, a 40-year-old from Weaverville, Calif., puts it another way: "I sleep in the back of my pickup, I eat old food out of a bag, I breathe smoke, and I haven't washed my clothes in days. But you've got to understand: this...
...proceed to write my Gov paper," I said to myself. I reached into my desk to take out a few sheets of typing paper. But scattered across the top of the ream of Berkshire Bond was an unshuffled, disordered deck of cards...
Bernstein juggled a scotch on the rocks, a tin of imported cigarettes and a ream of papers. Throughout the night each one of those distractions competed for the great maestro's attention. With 70 "student leaders" in attendance, hung over and left over from the Memorial Hall dinner where Bernstein was supposed to give his speech, he told of "the Enemy" that people create to give life a clearer purpose. As a country, we force the Soviet Union into that role, Bernstein argued--putting down the scotch on the rocks and spraying ashes on the Junior Common Room carpet--just...
...narrative deftly moves through the straits of midlife: the death of a parent and the consequent yearning to define and understand the past; the urge to turn over a ream of new leaves and the inability to change a single bad habit; the fear of mortality and the resulting impulse toward adolescent excess. Merely as a balancing act, the medley of tones would be impressive...