I do believe that he talks about how the laws can be broken, but it is mostly based on human error that causes those malfunctions. It’s been years since I’ve read I Robot, but trying to remember correctly, I got the feeling that he believed robotics to be an eventuality to human advancement. We can try to fight it, but it will eventually happen weather we like it or not. But there has to be a fundamental rule system built into the robots because he also understood the threat that they could have on human beings. A machine that is much stronger than us integrated into our daily lives, given responsabilities that hold our lives within their metal souless hands. So it was not about how the laws are easily broken, but a warning for the future that would build them. He was well aware that they would never be around in his lifetime, but his kids? His grandkids? The thing I love so much about the old Science-Fiction writers and stories was their ability to predict these technologies and scenarios that we now encounter on an every day basis. This makes me want to reread I Robot.
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4 Comments so far. Leave a comment below.Great in theory. Someone might want to tell these to the U.S. military.
And all he wrote about was how those laws can fail so easily…
I couldn’t stop thinking of Zoidberg with that “Robut” pronunciation.
I do believe that he talks about how the laws can be broken, but it is mostly based on human error that causes those malfunctions. It’s been years since I’ve read I Robot, but trying to remember correctly, I got the feeling that he believed robotics to be an eventuality to human advancement. We can try to fight it, but it will eventually happen weather we like it or not. But there has to be a fundamental rule system built into the robots because he also understood the threat that they could have on human beings. A machine that is much stronger than us integrated into our daily lives, given responsabilities that hold our lives within their metal souless hands. So it was not about how the laws are easily broken, but a warning for the future that would build them. He was well aware that they would never be around in his lifetime, but his kids? His grandkids? The thing I love so much about the old Science-Fiction writers and stories was their ability to predict these technologies and scenarios that we now encounter on an every day basis. This makes me want to reread I Robot.