Hank G ☑️ on Nostr: TIL that it wasn’t Star Trek TNG that came up with the idea for a positronic brain ...
TIL that it wasn’t Star Trek TNG that came up with the idea for a positronic brain for androids. Isaac Asimov used that terminology in I, Robot in the 1950s. I’m not sure if he was the first but that’s still decades before Commander Data was imagined into existence. #scifi #StarTrek #IsaacAsimov
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