27 April 1999 1 Comment

Asimov’s “Reason”

Asimov’s “Reason”

They tried to control QT-1 even before it was born. Man’s newest robot is the subject of Asimov’s 1941 short story “Reason.” Asimov’s epigram asserts the Three Laws of Robotics that sound similar to patriarchal commandments dictated by another creator over two-thousand years earlier: A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, [...]