Robot visions was a very interesting read. The story has some aspects that really had me thinking. One was that the temporalists were extremely pessimistic. They were certain that the world is 200 years would be completely in ruins. They had no hope for humanity and the world in the future. I wonder if Asimov is as unhopeful for the future as the Temporalists were. Are the Temporalists acting as his belief? And are there really people out there who are that pessimistic about the world? I personally am very optimistic about the future. It was kind of depressing reading about how there might be people who think that the human race will be completely wiped out by either robots or their own doing.
Another aspect was that robots become so humanlike that they can't be distinguished from one human to another if people don't know that "human" is really a robot. Along those same lines is that will robots really be the ones inhabiting the earth? Depending who you talk to, some will say having robots so humanlike will be good, while others say that will be bad. I think it would be bad if robots have the same characteristics as humans. Every human is unique, and by giving robots human characteristics, I think that would be getting rid of the uniqueness of being human. Also, without humans, robots would not exist. So it have robots controlling the earth, would be far fetched. In order to have robots and give them human characteristics, you need humans to program them. To have all robots and no humans seems impossible to me.
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