First, a framing device that works wonders. I liked this book much, much more than I thought I would, because of two reasons. His achievement is that even with such laws in place, life is complex, issues will arise, and humans trying to live with robots is an unpredictable road to go down on. The ultimate achievement of Asimov in I, Robot is not that he invented the Three Laws as an illustration on how humans and robots could conceivably live together in harmony.
This idea is often presented in the sense of “look how clever it was of Asimov to invent these laws”, but it is even cleverer of Asimov that these laws constantly fall short in his stories. For one thing, it is a series of nine short stories, each one dealing with new social consequences of robots.Īnd here we come to the famous “ Three Laws of Robotics” in the book, which state that robots may not injure humans and so on. The book is nothing like the 2004 film, at all. And for Asimov himself, it was the diminutive start of an illustrious writing career that would last for decades. Most notably, I, Robot opened everyone’s eyes to how interesting robots could be. Of robot politicians, and robots who secretly run the world-all told with the dramatic blend of science fact and science fiction that has become Asimov's trademark.Isaac Asimov may not have invented the word ‘robot’ (that honour goes to the Capek brothers) but his book series pushed the robot into our collective consciousness as no other piece of popular entertainment has done.
Here are stories of robots gone mad, of mind-read robots, and robots with a sense of humor. In I, Robot, Asimov chronicles the development of the robot through a series of interlinked stories: from its primitive origins in the present to its ultimate perfection in the not-so-distant future-a future in which humanity itself may be rendered obsolete. With these three, simple directives, Isaac Asimov changed our perception of robots forever when he formulated the laws governing their behavior.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
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