Asimov paints us a fresh and concise plot with a message behind his short stories. This was before the genre was congested with thousands of novels and novels about conquering the planets wasn’t every other novel’s plot. Known as the father of science fiction novels, Asimov lives up to that moniker. First edition, a very fine copy in dust jacket of this groundbreaking 1950 collection of science fiction short stories. We will be the ones programming the robots and can make them solve problems we cannot. Who knows if that’s how it will be but he does make a good point.

These ideas are thought provoking and I have to say, this world Asimov speaks of sounds great. He believes robots won’t steal jobs from people but instead utilize them efficiently so there will be jobs for everyone and world hunger will not exist anymore. What is more interesting is that Asimov tackles one argument that has been thrown at robots and explains how it isn’t going to be an issue.

We have been fighting forever amongst each other and in the book, the age of robots brings peace. Asimov thinks robots are great and believes the problem is and always has been humans. |1 .The concepts the novel juggles with are fun and interesting. 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 Asmiov's trademark. 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. I, Robot is a collection of nine science fiction short stories by Isaac Asimov, first published by Gnome Press in 1950 in an edition of 5,000 copies. 3) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law. The three laws of Robotics: 1) A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm 2) A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

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