In this Slate review, Chris Suellentrop confirms my fears about the new Will Smith vehicle I, Robot: namely, that it ignore's Isaac Asimov's kinder view towards robots. Instead, it takes the neo-Luddite run at things which must have the sci-fi master banging on his coffin lid. The whole idea that someone would make a movie called I, Robot and have it concern a bunch of evil robots trying to take over the world would give him fits.
The article also reminds us of Asimov's prodigious output as a writer: over 470 books by the time he died at 72 in '92. He also had at least on book in every one of the 10 classifications of the Dewey Decimal System.
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