One day we were chatting in the Pereira Tech Talks community about artificial intelligence, robots, the future of technology — the usual topics we’re passionate about — and in the middle of the conversation someone mentioned Isaac Asimov. “Have you read his stories?”, someone asked. And it turns out several of us had not only read them, but had been fans for years.
It was one of those moments where you go “wait, you too?”. And just like that, a WhatsApp group was born. No grand plan, no formal structure. Just a group of people wanting to read science fiction and share what we thought about it.
The Library of Tomorrow
That’s what we called it. La Biblioteca del Mañana — The Library of Tomorrow. The name came up because what we read — written decades ago — feels like it’s describing what’s happening right now. Asimov wrote about robots with autonomous reasoning capabilities in the 50s and 60s, and today we have AI agents operating on Mars. That’s not a metaphor, it’s literal.
The initial idea was simple: every week we read an Asimov story, share it in the group, and everyone gives their opinion. No filters, no academic pretensions. Just honest conversations about what each story sparks in us.
From Asimov to everything else
What started as an Asimov-focused club grew naturally. We started talking about other authors. Someone suggested watching a movie. Another person shared a documentary. And suddenly we weren’t just reading short stories — we were watching Love, Death + Robots episodes, sitting down with Blade Runner, debating whether the future would really be as dark as cyberpunk wants us to believe, or talking about Black Mirror episodes that feel less like fiction and more like next year’s headlines.
The common thread is always the same: science fiction as a lens for understanding what we’re living through. And when you read Asimov today, with everything happening with AI, with robots, with automation — you realize Asimov was decades ahead of his time. Strikingly ahead.
What to expect from this series
Each chapter in this series is a review. My personal take on each activity we do in The Library of Tomorrow, as well as stories and tales I read on my own within the same theme.
Sometimes it’ll be about an Asimov story. Other times about a movie. A documentary. An episode from a TV series. Whatever we’re watching or reading that week. Each chapter is self-contained — you can read any of them without having read the previous ones — but together they build a larger conversation about what the future holds and how fiction has been preparing us for it.
I’m not a literary critic or a film expert. I’m a software engineer who grew up reading science fiction and who today works with artificial intelligence. And I think that combination — fiction and reality, past and present — is what makes these conversations so interesting.
Why this matters
We’re living in a unique moment. The things we used to read in sci-fi books are no longer fiction. Robots already work alongside us. AI already reasons, programs, writes, and makes decisions. And we’re just getting started.
Reading Asimov today isn’t a nostalgic exercise. It’s almost a manual for what’s coming. And discussing it in a group, with people who also make a living from technology and understand its implications, adds a layer of depth you don’t get reading alone.
So welcome to The Library of Tomorrow. Here we’re going to talk about books, movies, stories, and tales that make us think about the future. And about how that future is already here.
Want to join?
If you’re interested in being part of The Library of Tomorrow, you should know it’s a Spanish-speaking community. We meet virtually every week to discuss a story, a movie, or whatever we’re exploring at the time. If you want to join, reach out through my social media or fill out the contact form on this site selecting the topic “Join The Library of Tomorrow”. Leave me a link to your social profiles so I can learn more about you.
Let’s keep reading.
Resources
- Isaac Asimov on Wikipedia — full biography and bibliography of the author we read most in this club
- Pereira Tech Talks — the tech community in Pereira where The Library of Tomorrow was born
- Claude on Mars — Anthropic — AI-powered robots operating on Mars, fiction made reality
- Love, Death + Robots on IMDB — one of the series we watch and discuss in the club
- Three Laws of Robotics — the foundation of many Asimov stories we’ll explore in this series
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