And It Will Serve Us Right, an article by Isaac Asimov is written to predict the future of modern day. And It Will Serve Us Right, persuades us that human beings will eventually create robots that will surpass mankind, but they will never have the same “connection”, or “emotion” as of its creator.
Isaac Asimov is a science fiction writer that wrote the article And I Will Serve Us Right in 1964 to predict the technology of 2014. He first explains to us his father’s connection to him, and the two situations in which jealousy should not be possible: when the father surpasses the son, and when the student surpasses the teacher. Isaac used this theory to have people understand the first topic that he will be talking about, jealousy. Asimov then …show more content…
(Asimov 62) The style that Asimov is using here shows us that man should fear the creation that he has created with his own hands giving power to the idea that robots should not be made. Continuing upon his explanation on Greek mythology, he writes about how the Greeks envisions historical facts, “a mechanical man far more powerful than ordinary man, and one who could be defeated only with the greatest danger and difficulty.” (Asimov 63) Again, this shows us that he wants us to understand the worst possibility of a man-made man, telling us that even the Gods may fear this. Then bringing up small legends and tales of apprentices, he changes over to racism, Christianity, and God. Explaining how God is the only one known to create a life, a soul, and how any man-made man would be a just a shell without the morals and ethnicity of a …show more content…
Connecting jealousy and fear triggers the human emotions as we have strong feelings toward jealousy and fear convincing the reader to also change our thinking. Developing into the modern age of the 19th century Asimov refers to a story written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, a horror novel, Frankenstein. Inspired by Galvani’s discovery of being electrocuted to life, he explains the story of Frankenstein killing its owner. Having the author mentioning the story of Frankenstein tells the story itself that creatures being created will horrifyingly destroy its
Isaac Asimov is a science fiction writer that wrote the article And I Will Serve Us Right in 1964 to predict the technology of 2014. He first explains to us his father’s connection to him, and the two situations in which jealousy should not be possible: when the father surpasses the son, and when the student surpasses the teacher. Isaac used this theory to have people understand the first topic that he will be talking about, jealousy. Asimov then …show more content…
(Asimov 62) The style that Asimov is using here shows us that man should fear the creation that he has created with his own hands giving power to the idea that robots should not be made. Continuing upon his explanation on Greek mythology, he writes about how the Greeks envisions historical facts, “a mechanical man far more powerful than ordinary man, and one who could be defeated only with the greatest danger and difficulty.” (Asimov 63) Again, this shows us that he wants us to understand the worst possibility of a man-made man, telling us that even the Gods may fear this. Then bringing up small legends and tales of apprentices, he changes over to racism, Christianity, and God. Explaining how God is the only one known to create a life, a soul, and how any man-made man would be a just a shell without the morals and ethnicity of a …show more content…
Connecting jealousy and fear triggers the human emotions as we have strong feelings toward jealousy and fear convincing the reader to also change our thinking. Developing into the modern age of the 19th century Asimov refers to a story written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, a horror novel, Frankenstein. Inspired by Galvani’s discovery of being electrocuted to life, he explains the story of Frankenstein killing its owner. Having the author mentioning the story of Frankenstein tells the story itself that creatures being created will horrifyingly destroy its