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.
The story sounds like it has an interesting ending. Actually your response made me wonder whether or not if that is possible. After all there are famous theories that claim the idea would be ridiculous. One of the most famous is "The Chinese Room" experiment. This thought experiment claimed that programming a robot artificial intelligence impossible.
ReplyDeleteI think in the larger scheme this relationship between man and machine is somewhat similar to the relationship of man and god, but I will leave that to your interpretation.