Passage:
" 'Oh, certainly. That is not surprising. The new system is be coming widespread. The surprise is that the Machine failed to warn Vrasayana to renovate or combine. -Still, no matter. Vrasayana accepted a job as engineer in the new plant, and if his responsibility and pay are now less, he is not actually suffering. The workers found employment easily; the old plant has been converted to-something or other. Something useful. We left in all to the Machine.' " (Pg.209)
Response:
This quote is from the last chapter of I, ROBOT, shows about the future life that people will all become unemployment because all the job are give to the Machine, and the Machine will do all the work. This final chapter of a book have bunch of questions and answers about the world in the future. Everything in the future mostly base on the advance technology. I wonder what will happen to our society if the Machine also run our government.
Analysis:
In the final chapter of the book, Isaac Asimov sums up all the questions of his readers might have made along reading this novel, and he also shows how the questions and answer through his characters in this novel. As a reader so far of this book, I realized that Isaac Asimov shows each chapter with different tale/story, but it still connected to each other. I think the readers of this fiction novel are very enjoyed their reading like I did with the creative thoughts of author even the book is made out in 1950.
Sunday, January 8, 2012
I, ROBOT (EVIDENCE) - Post #7
Passage:
" 'Our district attorney never eats.' The repetition thumped by syllables. 'I'll modify that slightly. He has never been seen to eat or drink. Never! Do you understand the significance of the word? Not rarely, but never!'
'I find that quite incredible. Can you trust your investigators?'
'I can trust my investigators, and I don't find it incredible at all. Further, our district attorney has never been seen to drink-in the aqueous sense as well as the alcoholic-nor to sleep. There are other factors, but I should think I have made my point.' " (Pg.173)
Response:
This quote is from the chapter eight of I, ROBOT. This chapter shows Stephen Byerley is running for mayor in New York City, and Fracncis Quinn kept claiming that Stephen Byerley is one of the robots because he never eat or drink or sleep. Quinn ran to US Robotics to find some people who could help his claim. When Stephen Byerley arrives, people ask him to eat an apple to prove that he is a human, he ate the apple without hesitating, so he won the election. From this chapter, I wonder what will happen to our society if the robot becomes our leader.
Analysis:
In this chapter. I think Isaac Asimov purpose is to tell what will happen if the robot running for country politician, will the people trust the robot or not? or will the human let the robot running in the politics? As a reader, I enjoyed to read this chapter, because it the author created a relation of robot and human trust on the politics.
" 'Our district attorney never eats.' The repetition thumped by syllables. 'I'll modify that slightly. He has never been seen to eat or drink. Never! Do you understand the significance of the word? Not rarely, but never!'
'I find that quite incredible. Can you trust your investigators?'
'I can trust my investigators, and I don't find it incredible at all. Further, our district attorney has never been seen to drink-in the aqueous sense as well as the alcoholic-nor to sleep. There are other factors, but I should think I have made my point.' " (Pg.173)
Response:
This quote is from the chapter eight of I, ROBOT. This chapter shows Stephen Byerley is running for mayor in New York City, and Fracncis Quinn kept claiming that Stephen Byerley is one of the robots because he never eat or drink or sleep. Quinn ran to US Robotics to find some people who could help his claim. When Stephen Byerley arrives, people ask him to eat an apple to prove that he is a human, he ate the apple without hesitating, so he won the election. From this chapter, I wonder what will happen to our society if the robot becomes our leader.
Analysis:
In this chapter. I think Isaac Asimov purpose is to tell what will happen if the robot running for country politician, will the people trust the robot or not? or will the human let the robot running in the politics? As a reader, I enjoyed to read this chapter, because it the author created a relation of robot and human trust on the politics.
I, ROBOT (ESCAPE) - Post #6
Passage:
"The general manager did so with alacrity, 'Here's the deal now, chief. Consolidated Robots approached us a month ago with a funny sort of proposition. They brought about five tons of figures, equations, all that sort of stuff. It was a problem, see, and they wanted an answer from The Brain. The terms were as follows-" (Pg.144-145)
Response:
This quote is from the chapter seven of I, ROBOT, and this follows the events in chapter six, which was about one of the company has developed blueprints to build a space ship that could interstellar jump, but while the company's computer was calculating the blueprint, the computer was destroyed. The US robotic take over that problem by using their super computer called "The Brain" to calculate the blueprints, that super computer sent out orders to robots to build the space ship, and the ship successfully built. Powell and Donovan are sent to check out the space ship, and The Brain just sends the ship into space without warning.
Analysis:
In this chapter, Isaac Asimov shows The Brain is the main computer that give out orders to control all of the robots, and he also shows that main computer just goes wrong, it sends the space ship out the space with out warning, and I think the author shows that on purpose which relates to the robots. It might tells the robots do the thing that against the first law which couldn't harm the human.
"The general manager did so with alacrity, 'Here's the deal now, chief. Consolidated Robots approached us a month ago with a funny sort of proposition. They brought about five tons of figures, equations, all that sort of stuff. It was a problem, see, and they wanted an answer from The Brain. The terms were as follows-" (Pg.144-145)
Response:
This quote is from the chapter seven of I, ROBOT, and this follows the events in chapter six, which was about one of the company has developed blueprints to build a space ship that could interstellar jump, but while the company's computer was calculating the blueprint, the computer was destroyed. The US robotic take over that problem by using their super computer called "The Brain" to calculate the blueprints, that super computer sent out orders to robots to build the space ship, and the ship successfully built. Powell and Donovan are sent to check out the space ship, and The Brain just sends the ship into space without warning.
Analysis:
In this chapter, Isaac Asimov shows The Brain is the main computer that give out orders to control all of the robots, and he also shows that main computer just goes wrong, it sends the space ship out the space with out warning, and I think the author shows that on purpose which relates to the robots. It might tells the robots do the thing that against the first law which couldn't harm the human.
I, ROBOT (LIAR) - Post #5
Passage:
" Herbie spoke quietly. ' Your thoughts are confused, but there is no doubt at all that they concern Dr.Lanning. It is silly to hesitate, for as soon as you compose yourself, I'll know what it is you want to ask." (Pg.100)
Response:
This quote from the fifth chapter of I, ROBOT, and I think this chapter is a starting point for this whole story. Herbie is a nick name for the new robot model RB-34, which could read the human mind just like a normal human. I have wondered will the scientist in the future success created a type of a robot that could understand human word and act like what human can do, and in this chapter author shows that RB-34 is one of the completed robot model that has expert in the human emotion. I predict this new robot model will change the whole world again, but I think that new robot model not going to harm the human because all robots have set up with the three laws.
Analysis:
In this chapter, Isaac Asimov just starts the story by putting in the new robot model which could do what human can, and I think with this point author could show the robots should take over human place, or the world of the robot and human should treat equally. As a reader so far, I think this chapter is an easy chapter that the readers having to think much because author just shows everything with details, this chapter hasn't any confuse problem for the readers, all the readers have to do is to predict what will happen next.
" Herbie spoke quietly. ' Your thoughts are confused, but there is no doubt at all that they concern Dr.Lanning. It is silly to hesitate, for as soon as you compose yourself, I'll know what it is you want to ask." (Pg.100)
Response:
This quote from the fifth chapter of I, ROBOT, and I think this chapter is a starting point for this whole story. Herbie is a nick name for the new robot model RB-34, which could read the human mind just like a normal human. I have wondered will the scientist in the future success created a type of a robot that could understand human word and act like what human can do, and in this chapter author shows that RB-34 is one of the completed robot model that has expert in the human emotion. I predict this new robot model will change the whole world again, but I think that new robot model not going to harm the human because all robots have set up with the three laws.
Analysis:
In this chapter, Isaac Asimov just starts the story by putting in the new robot model which could do what human can, and I think with this point author could show the robots should take over human place, or the world of the robot and human should treat equally. As a reader so far, I think this chapter is an easy chapter that the readers having to think much because author just shows everything with details, this chapter hasn't any confuse problem for the readers, all the readers have to do is to predict what will happen next.
I, ROBOT (CATCH THAT RABBIT) - Post #4
Passage:
" I'm doing it! It's the six-way order. Under all ordinary conditions, one or more of the 'fingers' would be doing routine tasks requiring no close supervision-in the sort of offhand way our bodies handle the routine walking motions. But in an emergency, all six subsidiaries must be mobilized immediately and simultaneously. Dave must handle six robots at a time and something gives. The rest was easy. Any decrease in initiative required, such as the arrival of humans, snaps him back. So I destroyed one of the robots. When I did, he was transmitting only five-way orders. Initiative decreases- he's normal." (Pg. 89)
Response:
This quote from the fourth chapter of I, ROBOT, which shows Powell and Donovan on an asteroid station overlooking the robot model DV-5, nick named Dave and a leader of his robot model DV ore mining team. Dave described he can control six robots through the radio easy as control the fingers, but at last some thing has goes wrong with the robots, Dave couldn't handle six different radio frequencies at same time. Powell came up with an idea that to destroy one of those robots to help Dave easier to handle his robots. The future world of this novel aren't look easy than what I have predicted.
Analysis:
In this chapter, author Isaac Asimov has again achieved his goal by shows the creative realistic idea of how the future world should look like. He built up another planet (asteroid), which could extend space for human and robots and that planet could plays a big role in economy with the mining.
" I'm doing it! It's the six-way order. Under all ordinary conditions, one or more of the 'fingers' would be doing routine tasks requiring no close supervision-in the sort of offhand way our bodies handle the routine walking motions. But in an emergency, all six subsidiaries must be mobilized immediately and simultaneously. Dave must handle six robots at a time and something gives. The rest was easy. Any decrease in initiative required, such as the arrival of humans, snaps him back. So I destroyed one of the robots. When I did, he was transmitting only five-way orders. Initiative decreases- he's normal." (Pg. 89)
Response:
This quote from the fourth chapter of I, ROBOT, which shows Powell and Donovan on an asteroid station overlooking the robot model DV-5, nick named Dave and a leader of his robot model DV ore mining team. Dave described he can control six robots through the radio easy as control the fingers, but at last some thing has goes wrong with the robots, Dave couldn't handle six different radio frequencies at same time. Powell came up with an idea that to destroy one of those robots to help Dave easier to handle his robots. The future world of this novel aren't look easy than what I have predicted.
Analysis:
In this chapter, author Isaac Asimov has again achieved his goal by shows the creative realistic idea of how the future world should look like. He built up another planet (asteroid), which could extend space for human and robots and that planet could plays a big role in economy with the mining.
Sunday, January 1, 2012
I, ROBOT (REASON) - Post #3
Passage:
" Powell repressed a sudden attack of nerves. These robots possessed peculiar brains. Oh, the three Laws of Robotics held. They had to. All of U.S. Robots, from Robertson himself to the new floor-sweeper, would insist on that. So QT-1 was safe! And yet- the QT models were the first of their kind, and this was the first of the QT's. Mathematical squiggles on paper were not always the most comforting protection against robotic fact. " (Pg. 46)
Response:
This quote from the third chapter of I, ROBOT shows Powell explaining the robots got different brain different thoughts just like human, but they all have the same three rules that set into their memory, he also telling that QT is the first model of robot that they have made. I have thought about the robot that just follow what human say and don't have a thought like human, but in this chapter Powell explained the robot got the thinking like every single person.
Analysis:
In this chapter I think Isaac Asimov wanted to tell us what the scientist discussing and explaining how the robot could do and never forget the rules, I think that is his purpose in this chapter. I think the reader getting more clearly by reading so far on this book, and I think author achieve his goal with interesting idea and details in this novel. By giving those interesting details, that could make the readers feel no boring and keep wondering what will happen in next chapter.
" Powell repressed a sudden attack of nerves. These robots possessed peculiar brains. Oh, the three Laws of Robotics held. They had to. All of U.S. Robots, from Robertson himself to the new floor-sweeper, would insist on that. So QT-1 was safe! And yet- the QT models were the first of their kind, and this was the first of the QT's. Mathematical squiggles on paper were not always the most comforting protection against robotic fact. " (Pg. 46)
Response:
This quote from the third chapter of I, ROBOT shows Powell explaining the robots got different brain different thoughts just like human, but they all have the same three rules that set into their memory, he also telling that QT is the first model of robot that they have made. I have thought about the robot that just follow what human say and don't have a thought like human, but in this chapter Powell explained the robot got the thinking like every single person.
Analysis:
In this chapter I think Isaac Asimov wanted to tell us what the scientist discussing and explaining how the robot could do and never forget the rules, I think that is his purpose in this chapter. I think the reader getting more clearly by reading so far on this book, and I think author achieve his goal with interesting idea and details in this novel. By giving those interesting details, that could make the readers feel no boring and keep wondering what will happen in next chapter.
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