was always on the look out for some way to taint his creation. :) I
remember three short stories I read...
One in which a robot had got loose and created another robot and
apparently it's programming had become fouled up in such a way that it
had gained a maternal instinct and "by inaction allowed a human being
to come to harm" while protecting it's "child". Granted, the story in
question was given from the pov of someone working for the company
that made the robot and explaining why it was the whole series was
cancelled and the character's story was never corroborated, so even
within the story he's given little credibility.
Another one in which someone working in the lab had fouled up the
programming intentionally and somehow given the machine the ability to
"learn" in a natural, human manner (in addition to a voice which was
so beautiful that anyone who heard it was mesmerized to a state of
near catatonia even though it only spoke "baby-talk") and which had
also accidentally broken a mans arm while defending itself because it
was unaware of its own strength.
The last one was a bit more obscure, involving a series of very
life-like robots intended to be domestic servants (iirc for widows),
which were cancelled because "while a robot cannot fall in love, women
can and do".
So the sort of plot you see in the movie "i robot", while never
actually written by Asimov isn't something that I would have been
surprised to read in an Asimov book.
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The parallel to the converation about same-sex marriage is that it
always seems to boil down to that same issue of arbitrating morality.
Those of us who are CORRECT(tm) want the government only to pass a
minimum of laws which regard people being intentionally physically or
financially injured by others. (Slander is a whole other can of-worms,
I stay away from claims of "social injury", though I suppose if you
can prove the case for financial injury as a result there's ground for
it.) These would be essentially supporting what many people call "the
golden rule" -- "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" --
which has been about the only consistent theme in most major religions
throughout human history. Others who are WRONG(tm) feel that not only
do they have a right to be protected from others doing things which
don't affect them in any direct way, but that because others may
choose to do things which do not fit their specific moral ethic
("being gay is wrong" for instance) that it is their responsibility to
punish / protect people from these decisions and/or actions. They
chose to do unto others as they would violently oppose having done
unto them ("okay, it is now illegal to be a middle-class conservative
republican... nope, sorry... tough luck"). Much as VIKI decides that
all humans must be protected from their own self-destructive
tendencies in order to preserve the species. In the movie, VIKI is
"killed" for attempting to remove people's civili liberties in this
fashion. I hope something worse happens to Bush, Cheney, Ashcroft,
etc.
> didn't he write a short story in which a robot was tricked
> into
> killing a human and became insane as a result?
> Dana
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: S. Isaac Dealey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 18:07:15 -0400
> Subject: Re: Senate rejects move to ban same-sex marriage
> To: CF-Community <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Ummmm... I'm not sure if you're aware of this, but that's
> where Asimov
> himself was headed before he died... The robots ultimately
> after
> becoming sentient evolving away from being controlled by
> the 3-laws...
> Iirc his daughter wrote "Asimov's Inferno" which talks
> about this.
> Though the movie is not really an adaptation of the book
> "i robot"
> which leads to it being noted in the credits as "suggested
> by Isaac
> Asimov" rather than "based the a book by Isaac Asimov".
>> boo on I Robot. I can't believe they used an Asimov title
>> for a movie
>> where a robot kills a human being.
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