Asimov is a strange author for me. I always have a hard time finishing his books, not because they’re boring, but because I don’t understand a lot of what’s going on. But when I do finish them, I suddenly *get it* and I’m very glad that I’ve read whatever book I just completed.

This book was extremely thought provoking for me. Not only because I am a technologically illiterate person, but because I tend to be a bit paranoid about something without a soul making decisions for me. It’s funny to me just how much characters in books such as these rely on robots when people like to be in control so much. I doubt if humanity would ever really give up that much control of the planet and their lives to robots. I could be wrong, obviously. The control is lost so gradually in this book that it makes it quite plausible if we had the positronic brain technology. And I do have the privilege of seeing almost a hundred years of (fictional) robotic history in one book and then being able to form an opinion. But the stories did cause me to consider a little just how much faith we put into technology – even just by storing sensitive data on personal computers or how much of our lives we put up on display online.