Olaf Stapledon's science fiction

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Yes, he had a… he was early and sort of pioneered... I liked the... the way Arthur Clarke treated the future better but Stapledon was maybe one of the first to imagine humans evolving into some more super intelligent form and undergoing inexplicable transformations.

Marvin Minsky (1927-2016) was one of the pioneers of the field of Artificial Intelligence, founding the MIT AI lab in 1970. He also made many contributions to the fields of mathematics, cognitive psychology, robotics, optics and computational linguistics. Since the 1950s, he had been attempting to define and explain human cognition, the ideas of which can be found in his two books, The Emotion Machine and The Society of Mind. His many inventions include the first confocal scanning microscope, the first neural network simulator (SNARC) and the first LOGO 'turtle'.

Title: Olaf Stapledon's science fiction

Listeners: Christopher Sykes

Christopher Sykes is a London-based television producer and director who has made a number of documentary films for BBC TV, Channel 4 and PBS.

Tags: Arthur C Clarke, Olaf Stapledon

Duration: 30 seconds

Date story recorded: 29-31 Jan 2011

Date story went live: 12 May 2011