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"Someday" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the August 1956 issue of Infinity Science Fiction and reprinted in the collections Earth Is Room Enough (1957), The Complete Robot (1982), Robot Visions (1990), and The Complete Stories, Volume 1 (1990). The story is set in a future where computers play a central role in organizing society. Humans are employed as computer operators, but they leave most of the thinking to machines. Indeed, whilst binary programming is taught at school, reading and writing have become obsolete. The story concerns a pair of boys who dismantle and upgrade an old Bard, a child's computer whose sole function is to generate random fairy tales. The boys download a book about computers into the Bard's memory in an attempt to expand its vocabulary, but the Bard simply incorporates computers into its standard fairy tale repertoire. The story ends with the boys excitedly leaving the room after deciding to go to th

Someday (short story) - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Short story by Isaac Asimov "Someday" Short story by Isaac Asimov Country United States Language English Genre Science fiction Publication Published in Infinity Science Fiction Publication type Periodical Publisher Royal Publications Media type Print ( magazine ) Publication date August 1956 Chronology Series Multivac The Dead Past The Last Question " Someday " is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov . It was first published in the August 1956 issue of Infinity Science Fiction and r

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