I, Robot
by:
Isaac Asimov (author)
ONE MAN SAW IT COMING ISAAC ASIMOV ushered in the Robot Age with these superbly entertaining linked stories centred around the brilliantly simple concept of the Three Laws of Robotics. A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. A robot must...
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ONE MAN SAW IT COMING
ISAAC ASIMOV ushered in the Robot Age with these superbly entertaining linked stories centred around the brilliantly simple concept of the Three Laws of Robotics.
A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the FIrst or the Second Law.
These laws are meant to ensure mankind's supremacy - even when robots seem more human than people. But what if the three sacred laws can be contravened.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780586025321 (586025324)
Publish date: 1996
Publisher: Voyager
Pages no: 249
Edition language: English
Series: Robot (#0.1)
by Isaac Azimov This is one of those SciFi classics I've been meaning to read forever, so I finally took the plunge and found it very different than I might have expected. It seemed to me like a series of short stories that merge from one to the next without apparent demarcation. On the first pa...
“Why … WHY does something invariably go wrong with them?”“Because”, said Powell somberly, “we are accursed. Let’s go!”Asimov’s collection of short stories is a stunning document of humanity’s struggle to find balance in a world increasingly dominated by technological progress, but with the same soci...
Scroll down for the English version --- Pur amando la fantascienza, devo confessare di non aver mai letto nulla di Asimov prima d'ora, e quello che sapevo di lui lo conosco principalmente per sentito dire, e sempre per sentito dire, ho pensato che questo fosse il libro migliore per cominciare a ...
Well, that ended on an eerie note. And dovetails nicely into Foundation I guess (I'm always telling myself I have to read it, and balk at the commitment). Also, extra points for... is it irony? I mean, given who (and what) are the ones having this "laying it out and guessing" chat, and who each blam...
Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot deserves it’s place in the Hallowed Halls of Classic Science Fiction. This collection of short stories, which showcases the development of artificial intelligence, is exquisitely well-crafted. I can only imagine how groundbreaking these piece must have been when they were wri...
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