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Me, Robot
I
looked
at
my
notes
and
I
did
n't
like
them
.
I
'd
spent
three
days
at
U.
S.
Robots
and
might
as
well
have
spent
them
at
home
with
the
Encyclopedia
Tellurica
.
Susan
Calvin
had
been
born
in
the
year
1982
,
they
said
,
which
made
her
seventy-five
now
.
Everyone
knew
that
.
Appropriately
enough
,
U.
S.
Robot
and
Mechanical
Men
,
Inc.
was
seventy-five
also
,
since
it
had
been
in
the
year
of
Dr.
Calvin
's
birth
that
Lawrence
Robertson
had
first
taken
out
incorporation
papers
for
what
eventually
became
the
strangest
industrial
giant
in
man
's
history
.
Well
,
everyone
knew
that
,
too
.
At
the
age
of
twenty
,
Susan
Calvin
had
been
part
of
the
particular
Psycho-Math
seminar
at
which
Dr.
Alfred
Lanning
of
U.
S.
Robots
had
demonstrated
the
first
mobile
robot
to
be
equipped
with
a
voice
.
It
was
a
large
,
clumsy
unbeautiful
robot
,
smelling
of
machine-oil
and
destined
for
the
projected
mines
on
Mercury
.
But
it
could
speak
and
make
sense
.
Susan
said
nothing
at
that
seminar
;
took
no
part
in
the
hectic
discussion
period
that
followed
.
She
was
a
frosty
girl
,
plain
and
colorless
,
who
protected
herself
against
a
world
she
disliked
by
a
masklike
expression
and
a
hypertrophy
of
intellect
.
But
as
she
watched
and
listened
,
she
felt
the
stirrings
of
a
cold
enthusiasm
.
She
obtained
her
bachelor
's
degree
at
Columbia
in
2003
and
began
graduate
work
in
cybernetics
.
All
that
had
been
done
in
the
mid-twentieth
century
on
"
calculating
machines
"
had
been
upset
by
Robertson
and
his
positronic
brain-paths
.
The
miles
of
relays
and
photocells
had
given
way
to
the
spongy
globe
of
plantinumiridium
about
the
size
of
a
human
brain
.
She
learned
to
calculate
the
parameters
necessary
to
fix
the
possible
variables
within
the
"
positronic
brain
"
;
to
construct
"
brains
"
on
paper
such
that
the
responses
to
given
stimuli
could
be
accurately
predicted
.
In
2008
,
she
obtained
her
Ph.
D.
and
joined
United
States
Robots
as
a
"
Robopsychologist
,
"
becoming
the
first
great
practitioner
of
a
new
science
.
Lawrence
Robertson
was
still
president
of
the
corporation
;
Alfred
Lanning
had
become
director
of
research
.
For
fifty
years
,
she
watched
the
direction
of
human
progress
change
and
leap
ahead
.
Now
she
was
retiring
--
as
much
as
she
ever
could
.
At
least
,
she
was
allowing
someone
else
's
name
to
be
inset
upon
the
door
of
her
office
.
