{"id":150,"date":"2026-01-16T18:12:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/?post_type=item&#038;p=150"},"modified":"2026-01-20T11:20:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T17:20:35","slug":"runaround","status":"publish","type":"item","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/item\/runaround\/","title":{"rendered":"Runaround"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRunaround\u201d\u00a0<br>In:\u00a0<strong><em>I, Robot<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong><br>Isaac Asimov\u00a0<br>Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1950<br>Central Library<br>Vanderbilt University Libraries<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:21px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Asimov\u2019s short story \u201cRunaround\u201d is the first publication to express his Three Laws of Robotics.\u00a0Core to the story is Speedy, a robot trapped in a logic loop, in which two of the laws\u2014one requiring him to act to preserve human life, and the other to\u00a0preserve his own existence\u2014are in conflict.\u00a0The story\u00a0remains\u00a0a classic in science fiction for\u00a0treating robots\u00a0as\u00a0helpful companions,\u00a0rather than threats,\u00a0and for the portrayal\u00a0of\u00a0engineers as essential problem solvers on the space exploration frontier.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":156,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"section":[5],"class_list":["post-150","item","type-item","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","section-robots-ai"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item\/150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/item"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item\/150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item\/150\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section?post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}