Do you work for the Second Foundation?
I rather doubt it, baggie. I’ve read a couple of the books. No doubt about it, Asimov knew how to write!
I’ve heard it bandied about that he was CIA and was assigned to release the vision of what the black hats wanted to create and turn us loose with, having read the science fiction.
I’ve not been able to find anything that backs that up, but just throwing that out there for better researchers than I to notice if they run across it. Or can rule it out altogether. (My preference!)
I do wonder sometimes if we have been “nudged” (in the Cass Sunstein sense of the word) into creating this high tech AI thing that can become all to easily a monster. I also think now, that for whatever reason we are on the brink of it, it will require an acceleration of the growth of the heart in all of us in order to master it rather than to be mastered by it, which of course is what the black hats wanted, if indeed they did what I’ve heard they did, i.e. caused man to create the sci fi reality. Supposedly they wanted us to create our own prison planet and undoing. It may even have begun with Jules Vern. The sad thing for me with this thought process, is that I am quite fond of Sci Fi!
OK baggie, NOW what kind of crazy am I? Round rubber room with soft toys, or straight jacket with leprechauns?
For what its worth, while searching for a CIA connection to Asimov in order to make that above assertion - which I am unable to do - I did run across a top 10 list of CIA projects which I thought you might like to peruse:
http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-weirdest-cia-programs.php
Do I get a prize for loooooong run -on sentences???? PLEASE???!!!!