{"id":183748,"date":"2024-02-26T19:31:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T01:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/i-robot"},"modified":"2024-02-26T19:31:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T01:31:21","slug":"i-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/i-robot","title":{"rendered":"I, Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/678Fbd8e9cE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cGod looked upon his world and called it good, but Man was not content. He looked for ways to make it better and built machines to do the work. But in vain we build the world, unless the builder also grows.\u201d Tinged with earthbound authenticity and verbal courtroom sparring straight out of \u201cPerry Mason,\u201d this classic episode finds a robot \u2014 Adam Link \u2014 on trial for the murder of the scientist who created him. \u201cStar Trek\u2019s\u201d Leonard Nimoy turns in a fine performance as the cock-sure reporter who coaxes a crusty lawyer, Thurman Cutler (Howard Da Silva), out of retirement to defend the accused automaton. Based on the classic \u201cAdam Link\u201d stories first published in 1939\u2019s \u201cAmazing Stories\u201d magazine, \u201cI, Robot\u201d asks the question: In the race for more complex technology, are we creating beneficial machinery\u2026or futuristic Frankenstein monsters? In 1995, Nimoy will return to this story in the revival series of \u201cThe Outer Limits,\u201d this time as the District Attorney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGod looked upon his world and called it good, but Man was not content. He looked for ways to make it better and built machines to do the work. But in vain we build the world, unless the builder also grows.\u201d Tinged with earthbound authenticity and verbal courtroom sparring straight out of \u201cPerry Mason,\u201d this [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}