After reading A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, I assigned reading comprehension and writing activities to my child. One of many assignments was the short story A Loint of Paw by Isaac Asimov. No, that was not a typo. The assignment is as follows:
Read the short story here.
Answer the following questions.
1. In what year is this story set?
2. What point of law is raised in the story?
3. What do you think happened with the law after the judge handed down this decision? Why?
4. If the tesseract had become common knowledge, as time travel was in "A Loint of Paw," how might it have affected the laws of the word? Give examples of laws that have been made to regulate the effects of technological advances.
5. Why types of new technologies have come about in your life time?
6. What laws were written or changed to govern these new technologies?
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