And it's in I, Robot.ĭumb joke, but not entirely without accuracy.

Note: I had many of the details wrong - but it's still someone punching another on stage after being heckled. (I don't think I just imagined it, but.)Įdit: I Found it - Evidence (2nd to last story in the book) I'm pretty sure it was in I, Robot, toward the end. By reading the stories from front cover to back cover, we see the evolution of human - robot relationships both at a personal level. This book is a collection of several stories, all of which are set in the near future when written by I. Susan met with him later and gently accused him of being a robot anyway (who arranged the incident to 'prove' otherwise.) But she was happy with this result and expressed her confidence in him. Few books have defined a genre of pop culture as well as this short classic by Isaac Asimov. Eventually, he gave the reporter a solid punch in the face after considerable provocation.

If I remember, a reporter accused him of being robot and demanded that he violate one of the three laws, and the candidate initially refused saying he wanted to remain a good man. He called this Frankenstein’s complex or something like that. Susan Calvin was brought in (or went on her own initiative) to determine whether or not the candidate was a robot. The irony is that Asimov wrote his robot stories because he was fed up with Robots going evil and killing humans. It's been years since I read it.īasically, someone was running for political office and he was a little *too* perfect. One of the later stories in the book, I think. Asimov shows that robot control, contrary to many other authors’ stories, may not actually be such a bad thing, because they can protect humans better than humans can protect themselves.

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