Bicentennial Man - Isaac Asimov

Concerning the eternal question of what is better, first read the book and then watch the movie, I think my personal reply does not apply to this story, given my personal answer is that it is better to read the book, since the abbreviation of history that is usually done to put film in two hours what the book is a much longer adventure, the film siemrpe less clear. And it applies to this book because to be a movie over two hours and half hours, is based on a book on my PRS is barely 40 pages. However, I still maintain that it is best to read before seeing the film, so I will give the answer in Libreopinion.net Garroferal, which was one that I had read previously published a cartoon many years ago one of the two newspapers more coverage in El Salvador (can not remember exactly which one), but the cartoon was called "The family circle, where a comparison was reading the story, where one imagined the scenes and dialogues which he imagined and even intonation of the characters, hear the story on the radio, where dialogue and intonation were no longer to the imagination, but the images themselves, and finally to watch TV, where neither the one nor the other were to imagination, and therefore was richer reading the book, since everything depended on our mind.

Abstract

Andrew was the model of NDR and a series of numbers, and when he came home to Martin, the youngest of the family was named Andrew, that's why it was that the name was given in the family in the future. It was a time in which robots were not very common yet, and the Martin family was allowed to have one at home given that Mr. House was a member of the legislature, and therefore could afford it.

Andrew soon demonstrated creativity to carve a small ornament to the little wooden house, and then to verify that Andrew had actually cut the piece, Mr. Martin handed him a piece of wood for carving something. It took the robot to U.S. Robots & Mechanical Man for an explanation of the source of the creativity of Andrew, but this was classified as a defect, and even offered the possibility of replacing the unit.

Andrew began to earn money with your art in wood, to the point that at one point it was necessary to open a bank account, for which we reviewed the legality of the matter. Andrew could thus pay for upgrades, and always with the latest in robotics. When Mr Martin was old, Andrew wanted his freedom and even the offended unintentionally apply the old, freedom was granted, which in the mind of Andrew only meant that it was no longer anyone's property, but continued to serve with pleasure their masters. Andrew at some point decided to start wearing clothes, and once it went to the library, he found two young men who wanted to make the robot self-destruct, just for fun.

Andrew embarks on an investigation that will become hereinafter in its reason for being: to become human. To do so, a new science that provides the possibility of replacing human organs organized equivalents, while he used to turn ever more human.

It seeks to be declared a human, and battle in the courts to do so, however, declared to be human, you must meet one requirement: be fatal.

Comments

Long ago I saw the movie AI (Artificial Intelligence) by Stanley Kubrick. At that time I thought it was an adaptation of the story of Pinocchio. The Bicentennial Man seems an adaptation of the same story but from a totally different approach: that of an adult robot aims to become human, and not rest until its goal.

The film is a reflection of the book "The Positronic Man" which is in turn an adaptation of "The Bicentennial Man" by Asimov. In Asimov's original book there is a sentimental story about the search for Andrew in the movie there is. I think these are two approaches to the same story that is worth visiting alone.

As a separate comment, there is a moment in the film that Mr. Martin read what appears to be an electronic book. I think in some cases, truth is stranger than fiction, because although there is still no robot as advanced as Andrew Martin, at least there is a reader much more compact than that Mr. Martin held in his hands in the film, and I think that had existed at the time of filming (or producers could have imagined it), would have given the present day a better touch.