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Published online 16 July 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040712-16
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Monster or machine?
The androids in the latest Hollywood version of I, Robot might look like those Asimov had in mind for his 1950s book, but the film represents the very view of robots that he sought to displace, says Philip Ball.
Isaac Asimov called the movie version of his book I, Robot "the first really adult, complex, worthwhile science fiction movie ever made". Sadly, he wasn't talking about the movie that has just been released in the United States by Twentieth Century Fox, starring Will Smith, but about the screenplay that Asimov developed himself in collaboration with science-fiction writer Harlan Ellison, completed in 1978.
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