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Originally Posted by Joshua.P
Really? I always found Asimov's short stories pretty much atemporal. A lot of them were chiefly logical conundrums at their core and still stand in their own, regardless of the time period.
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I reread
I, Robot shortly before the Will Smith movie came out, and was surprised by how outdated the background and its concepts were.
One of the stories takes place on Mercury, where people ride around in spacesuits on the shoulders of big robots, steering the robots by the robots' over-sized ears.
In the modern day, the Three Laws and the anthropomorphic concept of AI that underlies them seem like a charming anachronism. Like Martian canals and the jungles of Venus. Maybe it's just me.