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Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by Iulioh on Friday August 04, 2023 @04:45AM (#36997224)
This reminds me of an Asimov novel (don't remember the name)

In this universe there are long life humans that don't really collaborate with other humans (like a single person, not a group of quasi immortal humans) in the scientific field to have all the credit because who cares if you take 200 years for a discovery if the glory is all yours

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Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by mousetree on Friday August 04, 2023 @04:51AM (#36997268)
Maybe The Naked Sun or one of the books in that series? It’s been years since I read it but I remember there being some motif about people not interacting physically and living a long time.
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Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by oblio on Friday August 04, 2023 @06:57AM (#36998182)
https://asimov.fandom.com/wiki/Solaria
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Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by imdsm on Friday August 04, 2023 @05:07AM (#36997375)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Daneel_Olivaw
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Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by stanac on Friday August 04, 2023 @06:57AM (#36998184)
It's second or more likely third book in Robot series.
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Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by 3yanlis1bos on Friday August 04, 2023 @08:41AM (#36999163)
That sounds like the people of Aurora.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Caves_of_Steel

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Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by darkwater on Friday August 04, 2023 @08:44AM (#36999183)
It's from "The Robots of Dawn"
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Re:Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic lev... by marcosdumay on Friday August 04, 2023 @10:57AM (#37000910)
I didn't read a lot of Asimov, but one thing that I noticed is that he likes repeating themes like that on several books.

It could be the main theme in one, and then just a short thing in many others; or the main theme in a few.

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