I,Robot

Author's Note: This page has my responses to I,Robot by Isaac Asimov.  I chose this book for my lit./book club.  The responses are listed most recent on the top.


June 2, 2011

Author's Note: Sara and I are both reading I, Robot and we decided to do something a bit different from a regular response.  Together we made a Vuvox on a few of the robots in I,Robot.  Please leave us feedback!

 


May 30, 2011

Author's Note: I am about one hundred pages from the end of the book and in the chapter Little Lost Robot, a unique robot disguises itself so that it blends in to the sixty-two identical robots, making the robot hard to find.  As I read that chapter, it really shows that everything is unique in their own way, so anyone can pick out one person or thing though it may take many trials. My response is going to be a poem instead of the usual essay type response.  In the poem, you will put yourself behind the eyes of the robot and I am really emphasizing that you are unique.  

Special
One of a kind
You can decipher rays
You're made to save humans from rays
With result to destroy yourself

A robot cannot understand jokes, exaggeration, sarcasm
So you take it literally,
"Get lost!"
Soon enough you're gone
You don't understand
Just like a little kid

Hiding
So no human can find you
Making yourself
Like every other
Trying to hide your abilities
Trying to hide your role
Trying to hide your true self

It gets harder
Interviews, questions, tests
But when a scientist gets "attacked" by rays
Your first instinct is to save her
Out of all sixty-two robots
You put yourself out
No longer in hiding

Forgetting that only you can understand rays
Forgetting that only you would be the one to step up
Forgetting that only you save the humans
In a crowd of people, you're unique
Every person can be told apart from another

You're tricked, exposed, furious
You attack,
But only leading yourself to destruction of yourself
By rays that can only harm you

May 21, 2011

Author's Note: This response is for I,Robot.  My goal is to include parallel, repetitive, and climatic syntactic patterns in my response.  I have also been working on reducing be-verbs by one-third.  In my response, I keep myself in "our time" but I am focusing on the robots in the book.

Twenty years from now robots will begin to take over.  Humans will slowly fade into the abyss leaving only mechanical contraptions to work.  Everyone surrounding will become afraid when soon enough all that is left are robots.  The sacred lives of humans will be gone so that only means something unreal will stay.  Though they interpret it as a life, we will interpret a robot as a machine.  Yet all will still be frightened by the thought of robots forever taking over of our world. 

For now we try to forget about the thought of robots.  We try playing our favorite game, seeing people we love, and living life to our fullest before we disappear from earth. I believe that our world together can stop robots from taking over our homes, our lives, our world.  2030 is yet years and years away.  Those scientists may be wrong.  Yes, there can be advancements in technology making some robots come up here and there, but humans could forever stay most powerful. 

It seems to me that we might never know what will happen in twenty years.  Robots might become dominant over humans or we might keep our rein as most powerful forever.  Either which way, we should live our lives to the fullest because tomorrow is never promised.

May 18, 2011

Author's Note: This is my first response for I,Robot.  I would like to include parallel, repetitive, and climatic syntactic patterns in this response.  I am also working on reducing by be-verbs by one-third.  I did my response on communicating with people since it's something that I thought of as important.  Please leave me feedback.  

You have friends and family, or maybe just some people to talk to.   You can be social with real living people and not programed devices.  Gloria Weston isn't like most children.  Her best friend, robot named Robbie.  Gloria would prefer to play with Robbie more than other children.  To her, Robbie is a real person just like she is.  Put yourself in the place as a parent of a child like Gloria, would you worry?

People need to communicate with real people.  If you only talked to a stuffed animal all your life, imagine where you would be.  You would be shy.  You would not have friends.  You would be attached to one thing and never want to let go.  Gloria's parents attempted to have Gloria forget about Robbie by giving him away and trying to make distractions but, it was too late.  She had spent so long attached to Robbie so everything reminded her of him.  Maybe one time in your life, you were actually like Gloria.  Luckily, friends and family brought you out of what could possibly have been.   

Spending time talking and being social family and friends is sacred.  You wouldn't want to waste life with something that isn't actually real.  For some who might have once been like Gloria, you should thank your friends and family since they got you out of it soon enough. 

"...Friends and family can set us right..." ~ Sera Christiann

10 comments:

  1. I agree with you and I had similar views of that story when I read the book earlier this year. Life is about interacting with other living things. To me it seemed that robots are a necessary part of our society but they must be viewed as tools not a equal or superior beings

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  2. I like the way you ended in in a quote. Great job! Sometimes, it felt like the be-verbs were reduced a little too much, but maybe that is because I am not used to reading something so distilled. Great intro, and I loved how descriptive your body paragraphs were. Good job pulling out a topic like this from your book! I think that all of us have been like Gloria in some way or another. Nice post!

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  3. I liked how you showed that there are many different sides to a robot. I thought your piece was very creative and could relate to everyone who read it.

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  4. I think you had a very clear point. That life is about communicating and interacting with other living things, not robots. Very nice introduction, although you may want a new thesis because you aren't supposed to have your thesis be a question. Otherwise, fantastic.

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  5. I really liked this post. It had very good point and I liked the quote you added at the end.

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  6. I think that you did a good job explaining the importance of actually talking to real people.

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  7. I loved how you ended that piece. Your conclusion really stood out to me. I also liked how you shared your fears and thing you looked forward to about our future, and the future of robots. Nice job.

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  8. Nice response. At this point I do not think that robots would be able to take over the world because all they really are are glorified computers that take in information about the world and act on it based on what its program tells it to do. However there are people that are trying to create systems were robots would make up their own programs as they go along and that is a frightening possibility to me.

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  9. I think you had some good vocabulary. I liked your thoughts on robots taking over the world and how we could stop them.

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  10. Great post! I liked the vocabulary in this piece. Keep going with the great posts.

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