Analyse af 'True Love' og 'Supertoys Last All Summer Long'

Mention some of the themes this story deals with. Remember to include examples from the story to support your analysis.

The main theme of the short story “True Love” by Isaac Asimov is technology "I am a computer program. I am part of the Multivac-complex and am connected with other parts all over the world. I know everything. Almost everything'2

But under this theme, there are many theme that we can talk about some of them .

The story focuses on the computer programmer Milton and his intelligent computer program Joe as they set out to find Milton an ideal partner "Never mind. That is abstract. Just find me the ideal girl"

Through this story, we can see that there is a friendship that can be between man and technology "For weeks, Milton talked to me. He told me of his parents and his siblings. He told me of his childhood and his schooling and his adolescence. He told me of the young women he had admired from a distance"

Discuss the ethical dilemmas presented in the story.

we can see new ethical dilemmas in this story, when people trust technology instead of human. In this story we see Jo trusts a computer, to find a girl for him and he talks with it about his private life " but Milton says I talk very well. Milton has never married, though he is nearly forty years old. He has never found the right woman, he told me".