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- File : ROBOTICS.S3M
- Title : The Three Laws of Robotics
- Author : Bolleke (welsevie@is1.vub.ac.be)
- Duration : 4:48
- #Channels : 2x4 = 8 (Stereo)
- Players : DMP 3.00, DMP/32 2.95, DPP 2.0
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- Info : The Three Laws of Robotics was created using ScreamTracker 3.01,
- Creative Wavestudio and Creative Ensemble CD for some of the
- samples. I did some ripping in my Absolute Body Control, Carlos
- Peron and Chris & Cosey CD's. I also took the liberty to rip
- some samples from other MODz using DMPC 2.21. The song was
- composed on a 486/66 with SB16. Play it in stereo at a 44 kHz
- sampling rate !!
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- Background Information
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- This song is my second tribute to Isaac Asimov, father of the
- Three Laws of Robotics :
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- First Law : A robot may not harm a human being, or, through inaction,
- allow a human being to come to harm.
- Second Law : A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings,
- except where such orders would conflict with the
- First Law.
- Third Law : A robot must protect its own existence, as long as such
- protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
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- R. Daneel Olivaw and R. Giskard Reventlov found there should be an
- all superseding, Zeroth Law of Robotics :
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- A robot may not harm humanity, or, through inaction, allow humanity to
- come to harm.
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- This alters First Law to : A robot may not harm a human being, or,
- through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm, except when
- in conflict with First Law. Second and Third Law should be altered
- in the same way.
-
- Han Fastolfe, who designed both of them, was inspired by their idea
- of finding the way to the Laws of Humanity, which govern human
- behaviour. He set up the idea for developing psychohistory, the
- mathematical system which allows to predict the future of large
- masses of human beings, and as such the future of the declining
- Galactic Empire.
-
- Hari Seldon developes psychohistory under R. Daneel's impulses and
- sets up Two Foundations at either end of the Galaxy, in order to
- shorten the period of destruction and evil forces between the fall
- of the First Galactic Empire and the rise of the Second Galactic
- Empire from 30,000 to 1,000 years. First Foundation is to make a
- synopsis of current science writing the Encyclopaedia Galactica,
- while Second Foundation sees to it that First Foundation follows
- the Seldon Plan. The plan is disrupted by a mutant, who can only
- been defeated by his love for a young woman. After that, First
- Foundation tries to conquer second Foundation, while Second
- Foundation wants to take control of the First. Neither succeed,
- by the choice of Councilman Golan Trevize from First Foundation,
- who chooses Gaia, a whole planetary system with a global
- consciousness, to develop into Galaxia. This, too, was planned by
- R. Daneel, who needed time to develop Gaia and pushed Seldon
- into developing psychohistory in order to gain some extra time
- for the creation of the Second Galactic Empire ... not allowing
- humanity to come to harm, as stated by the Zeroth Law of Robotics.
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- Read the books by Isaac Asimov !
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- The Robot novels : The Caves of Steel
- The Robots of Dawn
- Robots and Empire
- The Galactic Empire novels : Pebble in the sky
- The Foundation Saga : Prelude to Foundation
- Forward the Foundation
- Foundation
- Foundation and Empire
- Second Foundation
- Foundation's Edge
- Foundation and Earth
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- Discover major roboticist Susan Calvin in The Complete Robot ...
-