Thought-provoking stories, many of which could be books or movies in their own right.
Having the benefit of hindsight, it's interesting to contrast the future that people (or Asimov specifically) envisaged in the 1940's with our present reality.
I particularly enjoyed the last two stories, Evidence and The Evitable Conflict.
Now more than ever, we should give the subject of Robotics and AI more thought.
Spoilers ahead
It's interesting that Asimov envisioned that by 1998 (when the story of Robbie takes place), humanity will be taking its first steps toward becoming a spacefaring civilization. There are mines on Mercury and a lunar base that attempts to send expeditions to Mars.
NYC is home to the "half-mile tall Roosevelt Building". In reality, a half-mile tall building (Burj Khalifa) won't be built until a decade later and halfway across the globe – in Arabia. The tallest building in America is still almost half that height.
Asimov's future world has jet-cars, sunken garages and intelligent humanoid robots. Yet the first ones lack the ability to speak. Seems like we actually solved speech much sooner than artificial intelligence.
