Blog #16 - Reason, Isaac Asimov

Reason by Issac Asimov, is a classic example of frankenstein complex. In the story, Cutie a robot made and proggramed to take over the starship Takes Powell and Donovan out of power. He claims that he is superior to the humans and starts claiming to be "the prophet". He doesn't let the two men touch the controls and this makes them fear that the robot became disfunctional. I think that this was scary part of the story because it showed the possibility of robots programmed to have higher thinking to have the notion that they are more intelligent and superior to us and that they should be in charge. The other scary part was that the men couldn't even control the beam in order to keep Earth safe. The story also brought up the idea of faith and how we blindly follow what we read in books, instead of going by personal experience. I thought that the story came to a good ending. It suprised me that even though it may have seemed that the robot wasn't following the three rules of robotics; he had good intentions and saved Earth and the ship. I didn't really like this short story compared to the others, it seemed too slow-moving to me.