Resumo de I, Robot - Isaac Asimov

Within the field of science fiction, one of the best authors that has
written about robotics is, without doubt, Isaac Asimov. His
dozens of stories about the subject guarantee it...and the many
aproximations that have been done the same. Asimov is the
inventor of the stories called three laws of robotics. Namely, 1. A robot can never hurt a human being nor let a
human suffer because of his inaction. 2. A robot should obey the
rules that have been given to him by a human, except when these rules
are in oposition to the first rule. 3. A robot should protect his
own existence, until this protection is in conflict with the first or
second laws. Analize these with coldness. These laws are in
the manual of the perfect slave. Devotion absolute to the master,
blind obedience (but with the assurange of impeding if the robot might
be armed) and instinctual conservation. But Asimov twists these
concepts until it changes into some of the stories that are authetic
marvels of this generation. His pinnacle work in this sense,
without a doubt is I, robot. Narrated from the perspective of
Susan Calvin, one of the investigators that contributed the most to the
development of the brain, bases the rational of the robot and his
peculiar limitations, in this book that masterly expounds the suble
clarities of the robotic universe and the relations with the general
human population. The paranoid of the changes, Donovan and
Powell, confront the machines that apparently defy the laws that rule
them, the relation of love and hate that their own Susan Calvin
respects of the work of her life, the dichotomy of a society that might
need the robot, but despise and the theme, all of these themes are
masterly studies by Asimov.. and contain the seed of other very related
writings within this same universe. For example, the dilema that
presents the machine to escape, the imposiblity to discover the
secrets of hiperspace to implicate the dead humans that travel (even
though during a few nanoseconds) is also fantastically developed in the
story and in All the men of the world. In this book also
appears another classic theme, the machine that transcends his creator
and convirts into the perfect entity. In efect, Asimov
demonstrates how the three laws of robotics, announced to establish a
status quo of submission, can evolve to convirt a robot into an entity
more human than than the humans. This principle is
magnificently described in the Trial (or how a robot can pass a
human) and was later turned into the screenplay, the bicentenial man,
winner of the Oscars that have an interesting reflection about what
makes us human. Finally, the idea that the machines can stop the
domination of the humans, to find the limitations of the second law,
how and why is the final conflict inevitable constitues the origin of
the good part of his work on the subject.

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