So this is
my first post about our Play, I, Robot. In fact, it’s so early, that we haven’t
even decided on a name for the production, so for now, it’s I, Robot, and if it
was good enough for Asimov, I suppose it’s good enough for me.
We’ve
selected 4 plays from I, Robot, but I’m not about to say which they are. I just
wanted to tell you a little about Asimov and why we’re doing the play in the
first place.
Firstly,
Asimov is easily one of the greatest writers, irrespective of genre… though,
often having written sci-fi seems to go against him. His genius and insight
into humanity, and humans is amazingly unrecognized, merely because he uses
robots to demonstrate his understandings.
Just to
demonstrate the degree of impact he’s
had; he invented the term ‘Robotics,’
and was the first person to think about Robotics in any kind of seriousness. He
created the ‘Laws of Robotics,’ which established an algorithmic basis for
robots that could think intuitively.
He created the
possibility for artificial intelligence, and inspired an entire new field of
human venture. In fact the owner of the largest construction Robot company in
the world right now was inspired by his writing when he was in college, and
after graduation dedicated his life to figuring out the nitty-gritty of
robotics.
We’ve taken
a few of his most interesting robot stories, and put them together into a play.
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