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Asimov’s Robot series was so compelling primarily because he mixed hard science fiction ideas of robotics and technology beyond our
reach today along with a genuine effort of using psychology or pseudo psychology in attempting to draw projection lines into the future
and describe to us the evolution of a mixed human society on its way to slow extinction, its intricate social interactions, and he did so
convincingly.
Asimov looked at patterns of behavior in species on our planet known to communicate telepathically, from insects to mammals, includ-
ing whales, and patterned an emerging global culture that resembled a huge hive - without any telepathy.
Then he introduced an artificial android, a sentient being, almost human because of a defect in manufacturing, that gave the ma-
chine telepathy and being an unusual machine amongst a sea of humans, he was the token individual.
For dramatic effect, Isaac Asimov flipped the situation inside out.
The premise of telepathy in a culture was explored again in Foundation and Empire.
While telepathy as a human power is often explored in the realm of science fiction, it is not often depicted in detail on how it
impacts society and technology with any degree of cogency.
Another science fiction writer that successfully depicted a global social struggle by group of naturally “mutated” humans
hiding amongst normal humans is 1970s’ author Jimmy Guieu in his novel “Manipulations PSI” where PSI is an abbreviation
for Psionics. The novel was interpreted as
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