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The school where i had studied as a child was destroyed in a fire. Isaac asimov the bicentennial man in the introduction to this. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the first law. He was ordered to read books on furniture design instead, and he learned to make cabinets and desks.
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