Article on how Asimov is constantly misunderstood, though his books are rather straightforward and simple. The new movie I, Robot has done this, by making robots evil. They were never evil in the stories. Their intentions were only misunderstood by humans. Asimov was trying to show that logical and rationality are good things and we should learn to trust them and not concentrate so much on the emotional side--eventually they will meet out a better society.

I read the I, Robot stories a month or so ago. I was underwhelmed by them. I hate it when short stories from the same universe are tied together loosely with a "story." The story that ties them together always sounds fake and contrived. The stories should be able to stand on their own. Aside from that, the stories were very simple. There wasn't much character development (the most was in the robots), and the plots revolved around problems. They were fun to read, though, as they made you think about the future of mankind and the role of machines and computers in it.

Such a flim would make a killing with the engineers of the world. Too bad Hollywood doesn't cater to engineers every once in a while.