I, Robot.”

I’ve just read Cory Doctorow’s “I, Robot.” I’m stunned. There is no way I can ana­lyse it object­ively; as it renders back to life vivid bits of memor­ies from my child­hood. Let me explain.

I was born behind the so-​called “Iron Cur­tain,” been raised in a com­mun­ist soci­ety where we were taught that we were the chosen ones, that our ideo­logy was the purest and our tech­no­logy was the best. And sup­posedly — in our glor­i­ous his­tory — we inven­ted everything and the per­ver­ted cap­it­al­ists had again and again stole from us, but in the end we will prevail.

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