Lamentarsi è una caratteristica innata della specie umana. Nel Secolo del Carbone la gente imprecava contro la macchina a vapore; in una commedia di … - Isaac Asimov

Trantorians, poor specimens that they are, know nothing about open air, free water, and the true balance of nature.

I'm afraid you don't understand the situation. There's a good million of us here on Terminus, and not more than a hundred and fifty thousand are working directly on the Encyclopedia. To the rest of us, this is home. We were born here. We're living here. Compared with our farms and our homes and our factories, the Encyclopedia means little to us. We want them protected — ' He was shouted down. 'The Encyclopedia first,' ground out Crast. 'We have a mission to fulfil.' 'Mission, hell,' shouted Hardin. 'That might have been true fifty years ago. But this is a new generation.' 'That has nothing to do with it,' replied Pirenne. 'We are scientists.

And then — U. S. Robots has interstellar travel, and humanity has the opportunity for galactic empire.