Thursday, February 17, 2005

Noise in the Machine - I, Robot

I was a bit offended to see Cory Doctorow's article quoted as a link to the story "I, Robot". Upon clicking to the page, there was no immediate reference to the fact that the title is a direct lift from Isaac Asimov -- only lip-service was given to Isaac Asimov in the by-line.

My fear is that, a student in the future, searching for "I Robot" would come across the Will Smith movie, then the Doctorow story before ever discovering the source -- Isaac Asimov.

This is exactly the sort of noise in the machine that will rewrite history to favour the popular instead of the true.

 
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