I Am That Robot

I Am That Robot

There has been a surge in utopian thought over the past three centuries. Usually a striving for perfection, the believers worked with men and societies to produce uniformly just states overseen by benign sages.
Instead, they developed uniformed states commanded by despots. The fiends used the new sciences to invent more efficient ways of killing and to control the human thought processes.
In the twentieth century three nations contested with versions of the New World Order. The Russians defeated the Germans in the Great Fatherland War, but the Nazi scientists brought their skills in nuclear and psychological warfare to the USA.
Could the Republic withstand the new realities and threats from abroad?
In 1948 radio’s Theater Five tackled that issue in an episode called the New World Order. The Americans had developed a race of robots superior to human beings in every way with the ideals of the Republic implanted on the electronic brains. Also instilled was the First Law of Robotics. They could not harm human beings.
The human project leader authorized the building of one robot not governed by the First Law. Eventually, the rogue robot murdered all the project scientists replacing them with robots indistinguishable from the originals.
The drama implied that robots would soon replace the government leadership with their own. Prophetically, the Republic fell in 1950 the rest being history.