Demerzel

Who is Demerzel?

• Essentially a cover name by R. Daneel Olivaw.

Then who is R. Daneel Olivaw?

• R. Daneel Olivaw (R standing for “robot”) is a character from Isaac Asimov’s book series: Robots and Empire as well as Foundations and Empire.

Why a focus on Demerzel?

• I grew up on reading some of Asimov books and was greatly influenced (in my opinion) by the character of Daneel Olivaw. I chose Demerzel because essentially the robot, following the Three Laws of Robotics and the Zeroth Law, plays parts behind the scenes to help push humanity in the right direction so that it will not destroy itself. Daneel Olivaw goes as far as helping produce a person who only makes right choices in his life in order for Daneel to promote his idea that humanity can only survive if it becomes a part of Gaia. In the end, however, the person Daneel chooses instead says that he will take humanity’s chance with a new Federation based on freedom and commerce which Daneel has to accept even though the chances of humanity’s survival drops by a few percentage points.

Where can I learn more information?

• Wikipedia always has good information from time to time and can be read over here.

More to come…

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