October 7th 2009
Chapter 5, I am finally starting to understand the structure of the book a lot more. At each chapter, a new story is introduced by Susan Calvin, who is giving an interview to a reporter in 2057. The book plays out a lot like the movie Titanic, story structure wise. I think Isaac does a good job using this structure.
The next plot is set in 2021. Susan Calvin and her team at US Robots are testing the new RB-34 model of robot, nicknamed “Herbie”, capable of reading the human mind!
This chapter was one where you really had to think in order to understand. A robot that can read humans mind, I think, would be a very bad idea in my mind. Just think; robots walking around that can just look at you, and tell you exactly what you are thinking!
On the contrary, it wouldn’t be so bad. Imagine having robots taking the place of humans interrogating criminals. There wouldn’t be much interrogating needed.
In the end, the robot is outsmarted by the wit of Susan Calvin, and the robotic law #1 over powers its abilities: that a robot must not harm a human being.
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Thanks for the help
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