2 The Liar by Isaac Asimov

Step into the incredible, amazing future. As we go, explore a new future guide to the invention of the mind, the editor of the Sounding Science Fiction magazine, John Campbell, Jr.

Throughout your twitch and move, they're liars. Liars, somebody who doesn't tell the true facts. Good people. News for a broadcasting system, in cooperation with Xbox, America's largest selling laxative, on the Rita's Dodge House, the most widely read magazine in the world.

Well it returns with a story idea of a robot. That certainly seems like your science fiction. As a matter of fact it isn't. You've got several robots around your own. Well for instance I have an automatic oil burner a little bit.

You have one finger that's up in the living room to see how warm it is there. It has another little finger put up in the stack to see whether the fire is burning. One of these little sensory devices reports the same time what they should be.

The robot to protect the house shut off the furnace. After I think and some of the authors tonight's story, I'd like to recognize this from setting up this proposition of the three laws of robotics.

They'll never harm or allow harm to come to a human being. They'll feel a better order than a human being. And the third, then it shouldn't protect itself. You're there for all the war, but it's an expensive piece of machinery.

Well, let's consider the more advanced kind of... I just wanted to be sure there was a meeting in this afternoon with Dr. Lenny, that's all. Today is Friday. It's live this morning. Well, and we have no problem with being Friday, the executive officers of the firm of U.S. law-bottom mechanical men will assemble in the conference room at the customary hour of 3.30.