I, Robot (1950) by Isaac Asimow 1920-92.
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The three laws of robotics:

1. A robot may not injure a human being,
or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

2. A robot must obey the orders given to it
by human beings exept when such orders conflict with the
First Law.

3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as
such protection does not conflict with the First
or Second Law.


Susan Calvin had been born in 1982, which made her 75 now:

She went back to her desk and set down:
how old are you now, she wanted to know.
thirty two I said.
Then you don't remember a world without robots....
There was a time when humanity faced the universe alone
and without a friend....

Certainly said Bogert, a robot may not injure a human.
How nicely put sneered Calvin. But what kind of harm ?
- any kind ?
Exactly. So what about hurt feelings, what about 
deflation of ego. The blasting of ones hopes. Is that injury ?
- Obviously !


-You are a US robot psychologist ?
-Robopsychologist !
-Oh are robots so different from men ? mentally ?
- Worlds different. She allowed herself a frosty smile.
Robots are essentially decent.


Simple lifers, hungering after a life, which to those 
who actually lived it had probably not appeared so
simple, and who had been, therefore, simple lifers themselfes -
They detested robots.

Where it says dwelling place .... A robot cannot own 
property, so you may tell your ...

If a robot can be created capable of being a civil executive,
I think he make the best one possible. By the laws
of robotics ...

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Just as the structure of geological strata and fossils
seem to be evidence of a past, our brains contain physical 
structures consistent with the appearance of
recent and distant events. We think time exist.
But it does not. 


There is only one giant NOW. and in that giant NOW
the Robots are already here.

Aarhus Nov-14-1999, Simon Laub.