Isaac Asimov was a great New Yorker, I was privileged to grow up in his city while he lived here and bump into him every once in a while. As you know from the Foundation trilogy he had really at the bottom a very gemutklich sense about all of this. Trantor was really the grand concourse and good Jewish family values were really enough to save the galaxy. Unfortunately this was the visionary part of the science fiction, and it isnt true. It was much easier to get people to hang robots around the necks of their children than anybody ever imagined. And it didnt require any promise that they would never never never harm anybody, all it required was little shiny things, made by count Dracula the king of the undead.
The purpose of the undead as you know, is to make evil beautiful. Thats what the undead do. They turn evil into something so erotically attractive, you cant keep your hands off it, and you dont mind having its hands on you. And he did that, the king of the undead. Hes dead now but they didnt throw his boot into the Danube and there was no silver bullet, and there was no stake through the heart, and the undead still are with us. Theyre improving the screen and such like, until another king of the undead who can build damned beautiful things is ready, but thats all it took. And now we put those things around our childrens necks and we send them off to be harmed, by the robot, with whom they live.