Bicentennial Man - Isaac Asimov

Referring to 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 response is that it is best to read the book, since the abbreviation of the story is usually done to put film in two hours what the book is a much longer adventure, the film always to be more vague. And it applies to this book because to be a movie over two hours and a 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'll give the answer in Libreopinion.net Garroferal, which was one that I had read previously published a cartoon many years one of the two newspapers more coverage in El Salvador (do 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 minds.

Summary

Andrew was the model of NDR and a series of numbers, and when he came to the home of Martin, the baby of the family was named Andrew, that is why it was that the name was given in the family in the future. It was a time when 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 by carving a small souvenir for 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 origin of the creativity of Andrew, but it was classified as a defect, and even offered the possibility of replacing the unit.

Andrew began to make money with their 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 your updates, and always with the latest in robotics. When Mr Martin was old, Andrew wanted his freedom, and although the request inadvertently offended the old man, he was granted freedom, which in the mind of Andrew meant was 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 they went to the library, he found two young men who sought 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 become more and more human.

It seeks to be declared a human being, 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. 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 an aside, there is a moment in the film in which Mr Martin read what appears to be an eBook. I think in some cases, reality 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 was holding in his hands in the film, and I think had there been the time of filming (or producers have imagined it), would have given to this day a better touch.

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