trygve's review
I, Robot
by Isaac Asimov
trygve's review
I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
trygve's review
rating:
The more Asimov I read, the more easily I come to realize that he is, at best, a mediocre writer. There is nothing particularly creative or even engaging about his writing style.
But he is a *brilliant* thinker, and his stories depict future scenarios that are often fascinating conundrums for humanity. His Three Laws of Robotics are justly famous for being an ingenious foundation upon which to build an artificial intelligence.
I, Robot uses a series of short stories to depict the early history of such AI driven robots, the dilemmas they present, the resistance they might encounter from factions of society, and how they would use the Three Laws to help humans, and even humanity as a whole.
Of the Asimov I've read so far, this is the one book so far that I could see myself rereading every couple years just for the heck of it.
But he is a *brilliant* thinker, and his stories depict future scenarios that are often fascinating conundrums for humanity. His Three Laws of Robotics are justly famous for being an ingenious foundation upon which to build an artificial intelligence.
I, Robot uses a series of short stories to depict the early history of such AI driven robots, the dilemmas they present, the resistance they might encounter from factions of society, and how they would use the Three Laws to help humans, and even humanity as a whole.
Of the Asimov I've read so far, this is the one book so far that I could see myself rereading every couple years just for the heck of it.
