similarly, the story of space station shows that robots are the masters. Asimov shows us that robots have their own minds, and they can think and learn new things by themselves, as “Cutie” said, “I, myself exist because I think” (page 62). And that is when “Cutie” decide that nothing beyond the station actually exists. People are trapped in space and need oxygen to breath, while robots do not need oxygen to stay alive and could choose to kill humans by breaking law number one of robotics. “Cutie” was able to think and Powell admitted when he said, “‘Cutie,’ he said, ‘I’m going to try to explain something to you. You are the first robot who’s ever exhibited curiosity as to his own existence” (page58). This shows that robot can develop by itself …show more content…
Readers can see that there is no difference between humans and robots except eating, drinking or breaking one of the three laws of robotics. And that is when Calvin tried to see if Byerley is a human or a robot. However, Asimov carefully did not leave any evidence whether Byerley is a robot or not because it does not matter. In fact, the human can live side by side with robots with no fears. If Mrs. Weston was afraid of living with a robot in the story of “Robbie”, this story shows that human and robots can live together without anybody noticing the difference between humans and robots.
Furthermore, robots become more powerful and necessary in human’s lives. In the story of “The Evitable Conflict”, Asimov shows the readers that robots and humans can live together safely and at the same moment make the readers ask about human’s freedom and destiny because this story gives a big picture to think about robots controlling everything in human’s life.
In conclusion, over the past 50 years, we have considered robots and technology to be an external influence, and we have used it as cars, computers, and cell phones, but there has been a remarkable shift in the past ten years.