“The machine is only a tool after all, which can help humanity progress faster by taking some of the burdens of calculations and interpretations off its back. The task of the human brain remains what it has always been; that of discovering new data to be analyzed, and of devising new concepts to be tested.”

— Isaac Asimov , book I, Robot

“The Evitable Conflict”, p. 187
I, Robot (1950)

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American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston Uni… 1920–1992

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