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  By Future Man - March 14, 2013 12:14 am Log in to Reply

  This is a great collection of Isaac Asimov’s short robot stories. By juxtaposing us with robots, there are some great philosophical questions raised about the nature of humanity. Often times in showing the humanity that machines are capable of, the reader is brought to question their own free will. We are made to feel uncomfortable by the blurring line between ourselves and the machines.

  While many of these stories were written at the dawn of science-fiction as a genre, they are still so incredibly potent today, and perhaps raise entirely different questions than the author intended at their writing. Since we have so much more thoroughly integrated with our technology and most of humanity is continuing to blur that line between man and machine, these stories will continue to take on new meanings for our still developing post-human society.