Book and Movie Reports by Ed

Book report: I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov This book is a collection of tales about robot behavior. Asimov, anticipating a time when autonomous and intelligent robots would have to coexist with human beings, created his three laws of robotics: a robot must not cause or allow harm to a human, a robot must obey a human (except if it involves harming a human), and a robot must preserve its own existence (except where that conflicts with the previous two laws). These laws have been elevated to science fiction canon, and are often quoted and used in other works by other authors. Each story involves robots acting in unexpected ways, and people trying to figure out why the robots are acting the way they are, and setting things right, if possible. They are all good stories, written as clever mysteries, and are well told. But Asimov’s genius goes way beyond creating a world, and its rules, and strange situations in it, and telling entertaining stories about it. His genius is in recognizing th