"i, robot"

Title"i, robot"
Year for Search2005
AuthorsDoctorow, Cory [Efram](b. 1971)
Secondary TitleInfinite Matrix
Date PublishedFebruary 15, 2005)
KeywordsCanadian author, English author, Male author
Annotation

Two societies are described, both technologically advanced. The first is a flawed utopia in that the technology is in the service of Social Harmony and is used as much for control as for improving life. The second, less fully described, is a eutopia based on nanotechnology.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in his Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2007, 101-57 which is rpt. in a 900-copy edition (Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2007), 101-57.

URLhttp://www.infinitematrix.net.
Holding Institutions

Merril

Author Note

The author (b. 1971) was born and raised in Canada, lived for many years in England and became a U.K. citizen, and moved to the U.S. in 2015.

Full Text

2005 Doctorow, Cory [Efram] (b. 1971). “i, robot.” Infinite Matrix (February 15, 2005). http://www.infinitematrix.net. Rpt. in his Overclocked: Stories of the Future Present (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2007, 101-57 which is rpt. in a 900-copy edition (Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 2007), 101-57. Merril

Two societies are described, both technologically advanced. The first is a flawed utopia in that the technology is in the service of Social Harmony and is used as much for control as for improving life. The second, less fully described, is a eutopia based on nanotechnology. The author was born and raised in Canada, lived for many years in England and became a U.K. citizen, and moved to the U.S. in 2015.