The Zeroth Law wasn’t in “I, Robot”. Siri answered the question as asked. According to Asimov, he didn’t even write the laws. They were given to him by John W Campbell Jr (the editor of Astounding), who claimed they were implicit in the robot stories he had written up to then. In the first robot story (“Robbie”) the robot couldn’t hurt the child because it was “made so.” It wasn’t till “Runaround” that the laws were explicit.
1971 book – Mutant 59: The Plastic Eaters by Gerry Davis and Kit Pedler. Aired as the first episode of the BBC show Doomwatch in 1972. Not as positive a notion as you might first think.
@A Common ’tator , “I buy my energy from France… Since when has France been an aggressor?” Well, there was that time the Duke of Normandy invaded, but it has been a while. B-)
Seriously, though, I echo your comments/thoughts about some of my fellow countrypeople. As a whole we are woefully undereducated and uninformed. It boggles my mind so many of them can be so arrogant with so little knowledge. We are behind in health care access, public safety, education in general, worker benefits, and infrastructure. Our power and communications infrastructure alone is so inadequate to current needs (pun intended) that it will be cheaper to rebuild than upgrade. And my understanding from a few years ago is that we pay 3-4 times the average European rate for unlimited data, and at a slower speed. (That may have changed in either direction recently.)
Fortunately, I do see signs that there is a majority of reasonable people out there. My mantra in recent years has become “It’s always the jackass that brays the loudest”
Another “not a foreign language” album from 1968 – “Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake” from Small Faces. (Faces before Steve Marriott left.) Particularly side 2 (yes, I still have a vinyl copy. Side 2 starts at cd track 7.) “Happy Days Toy Town”, for example, becomes (from memory) “Happy day lung toilly town newspaper read it and chuckly smile load.”
Unfortunately what the Wiz destroyed were bacteriophages (literally “eats bacteria”), not cold viruses. After all of that, Rodney still has a cold!