Isaac Asimov's Caliban Essays

  • Too blessed to be stressed

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    The date was the 18th of April 2030 when Anne woke up to face her annual grief, the grief of remembering her dear friend Tom. Tom Jonas had passed away 10 years prior to this day and all he shared with his family and friends was now nothing but just a distant memory, except for Anne though. The two shared a childhood together and had developed a deep calm bond, characteristic of the saying that calm waters run deep. Anne and Tom were only teenagers when Tom left with no return due to a plane crash

  • Slavery of the Machine

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    must now start asking ourselves the questions that may very well rise tomorrow. Does a machine programmed to possess some of those inherent qualities of humanity deserve the same rights and liberties? Bicentennial Man is a short story written by Isaac Asimov about a robot named Andrew that is little more than a machine servant. But through some fluke in the design of Andrew's positronic brain he gains sentience. His initia... ... middle of paper ... ...ost dearly. Clearly, man may not always

  • We Should NOT Judge Students by Test Results

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    We Should NOT Judge Students by Test Results Are people who get good grades and/or who get high scores on tests more intelligent than those who do not? Can we just distinguish people who get good grades and/or high scores on tests are more intelligent than those who do not get good grades? I firmly believe that it is not fair to judge people who get good grades are more intelligent than those who do not. Test scores are not a fair judgment to distinguish one’s intelligence. Test scores can not show

  • The Fourth Law Of Robotics

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    psychodrama, in this parade of human phobias: the machine. James Bond always finds himself confronted with hideous, vicious, malicious machines and automata. It was precisely to counter this wave of unease, even terror, irrational but all-pervasive, that Isaac Asimov, the late Sci-fi writer (and scientist) invented the Three Laws of Robotics: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except where

  • I Robot

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    efficiency of production, allowing individuals to reap the benefits of the robots. For the advantage of all, researchers and analysts have begun to mend the past ideas of human-robot interaction. They have pulled inspiration from literary works of Isaac Asimov whom many saw as the first roboticist ahead of his time, and have also gotten ideas of scholarly research done by expert analysts. These efforts have began to create an idea of a work force where humans and robots work together in harmony, on

  • Sci-fI Films

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    and Bicentennial Man serve to further blur this already fuzzy line. Bicentennial Man, directed by Chris Columbus (US, 1999), is based on a story Isaac Asimov wrote in 1975 and like many of his stories, it deals with the enigma of a machine with the intelligence of a man, but without the rights or the feelings. As we might expect the film presents Asimov's concept of the intelligent robot, a concept that, like Asimov himself, pre-dates the modern world of personal computers, video games, the Internet

  • The Breakdown: I, Robot book vs Movie

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    their actions, but on the other hand the vagueness of the laws themselves leaves room for error; that wasn't anticipated by the creator or the citizens of the community that depended on them on a day to day basis. In the story, I, Robot written by Isaac Asimov in 1950, there are contextual differences that practically disconnect its relation from its movie that made its debut in 2004, such as themes, plot, and characters in the story. The most obvious difference between the book and the movie are

  • Marooned Off Vesta Essay

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    Isaac Asimov is a very talented writer. Isaac focuses on the intensity of his novels and short stories. Suspense is one of the things he focuses on when writing short stories such as "Marooned off Vesta." "Marooned off Vesta is a story of triumph and intelligence. This story shows what can happen if you put your mind to it"(Corke). 	Isaac Asimov, of Jewish descent, was born in Petrovichi, U.S.S.R. on January 2, 1920. His parents were Judah and Anna Rachel Asimov. Isaac