In Sendai City, maintaining order means protecting the citizens, their lives and their freedom. But at the base of everything is the brain of the robots that populate the city: a spongy globe of positronic particles of a platinum-iridium ...See moreIn Sendai City, maintaining order means protecting the citizens, their lives and their freedom. But at the base of everything is the brain of the robots that populate the city: a spongy globe of positronic particles of a platinum-iridium alloy, which prevents them from undergoing chemical changes. At the center of the globe, an elementary particle of the Great Brain, the supreme being. The robots must not be paralyzed in front of emotions; at the first symptoms, the liquid memory of the human Shapes of the lower world, the old Caliban, must be injected into their positronic brain. A robot cannot harm a citizen of Sendai, and it cannot allow that citizen to suffer harm because of its inaction. But despite this, the concept of good and evil does not exist in the city, and violence is legitimate if used as a tool to defend the power of the Sendai Corporation. Is prosperity really an achievable goal? And will the robots obey the programming?
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