**edited 01/02/14 
 I, Robot is, in my opinion, a fundamental read for anyone interested in the emergence of modern scifi. The story itself is a sequence of loosely connected short stories written in 1950 that take place in a "future" world (where the future is the 1990's and 2000's). The premise of the story collection is that a longtime "robot psychologist" of the main robotics company is about to retire and is being interviewed for human interest stories about her varied experiences with robots. In Asimov's future, humans invented the "positronic brain" and used this technology to create robots that are in some sense a better version of humanity, yet subservient to humanity. The positronic brain encodes three main laws, in order of importance: first, that robots cannot harm humans or allow them to come to harm, second, that they must carry out orders that humans give them, and third, that they must endeavor to prevent harm to themselves. The title, to me, indicates the heart of Asimov's idea of AI technology: all of the robots in the story have feelings, thoughts, emotions, and a strong sense of self-identity. 
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