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I, Robot
I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
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August 1, 2012
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August 31, 2012
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This is essentially a collection of short stories loosely connected together, originally written by Asimov in the 1940's (for the most part).

These short stories contemplate whether robots and artificial intelligences (AI) might someday rescue humankind from self destruction (and perhaps lead us to a Utopian age), or, perhaps, control or dominate us; or, perhaps, the only way to save us from our own destruction is to control/dominate us?

Some of the ideas presented here seem similar to todays' c ...more
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