Creative Story: Deadlock
"Bzzz! Bzzz!" The alarm went off, and Susan Calvin rolled over. It was 6:30
in the morning, and RoboTimer™ had done its job admirably, waking her up to the
second of the time that it had been factory-programmed. Unfortunately, it hadn't
been set to the correct date, and when it announced "Saturday, December 14th!
Good morning!" in a load cheery tone, she groaned out load with the realization
that it was Saturday, and after that affair with the hyperdrive motor, she
wanted to sleep in, since it she had just come back to earth. "I hate this
stupid robot!" she yelled out loud, then suddenly closed her mouth. For Susan
Calvin had just remembered that her pact with the satans, as she thought of ...
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and primally-fearful lot of them, knew about
that!" As she got out and buttered her toast, she mulled the day ahead of her in
her mind. Weekends were never truly weekends for Susan Calvin, as she was forced
to work for most of the weekend, with her only respite being Sunday, which she
was allowed to come in an hour late for. However, she usually found herself
working late into the night on Sundays, out of an artificially induced guilt
that she knew was not real, but could do nothing to correct. After being driven
to work (working for the company that produced every MechTaxi™ in existence did
have some perks after all), greeting the doorman, and going up to her office,
Susan Calvin was ready to look at those equations! She only needed a small
period of time to warm up, and the wakeup-breakfast-come to work routine
sufficed. Almost as soon as she had sat down to work, the Founder of U.S. Robots
came in and said, "I need to speak with you, Calvin. There's been more reports
in ...
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become useless, wit all your
knowledge outdated! Rasssjemani, Quazaric, and Smith were only the principal
authors of the code, all of them geniuses! There are not even three geniuses in
the field of robotics alive today!" He paused for breath after this long
exposition, and Susan Calvin stepped in with some comments of her own. "Calm
yourself, man! I was just offering a suggestion! I have been making the same
type of suggestions such as those for the last thirty years!" "If you had made
suggestions such as that all the time, you would not be here after thirty years!
You must be losing it, Calvin!"
"I am the chief roboticist in the entire field, and you are treating me as if I
know nothing ...
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