Among the dystopias, for example, Isaac Asimov's The Caves Of Steel ( 1954 ) portrays the deadly effects on human life of the super-city of the future ; ;

Trantor also illustrates the mentality of human beings that was first encountered in Asimov's The Caves of Steel, wherein human technology will ultimately result in a complete encapsulation of a population, and that population will eventually suffer psychosis associated with that total encapsulation.

The first four robot novels The Caves of Steel ( 1953 ), The Naked Sun ( 1956 ), The Robots of Dawn ( 1983 ), and Robots and Empire ( 1985 ) make up the Elijah Baley ( sometimes " Lije Baley ") series, and are mysteries starring the Terran Elijah Baley and his humaniform robot partner, R. Daneel Olivaw.

This was followed by a 1964 dramatision of The Caves of Steel for the BBC series Story Parade and then four episodes of the BBC television series Out of the Unknown, based on " Satisfaction Guaranteed " ( 1966 ), " Reason ( in an episode titled " The Prophet ", 1967 ), " Liar!

In these adaptations, Elijah Baley was portrayed by Peter Cushing ( The Caves of Steel ) and Paul Maxwell ( The Naked Sun ), R. Daneel Olivaw by John Carson ( The Caves of Steel ) and David Collings ( The Naked Sun ), and Susan Calvin by Beatrix Lehmann (" The Prophet ") and Wendy Gifford (" Liar !").

Near the climax of The Caves of Steel Elijah Baley makes a bitter comment to himself thinking that the First Law forbids a robot from harming a human being.

In " Little Lost Robot " Susan Calvin considers modifying the Laws to be a terrible idea, although possible, while centuries later Dr. Gerrigel in The Caves of Steel believes it to be impossible.

Asimov used this obscure variation to insert himself into The Caves of Steel just like he referred to himself as " Azimuth or, possibly, Asymptote " in Thiotimoline to the Stars, in much the same way that Vladimir Nabokov appeared in Lolita anagrammatically disguised as " Vivian Darkbloom ".

This concept is largely fuzzy and unclear in earlier stories depicting very rudimentary robots who are only programmed to comprehend basic physical tasks, where the Three Laws act as an overarching safeguard, but by the era of The Caves of Steel featuring robots with human or beyond-human intelligence the Three Laws have become the underlying basic ethical worldview that determines the actions of all robots.

For example the police department card-readers in The Caves of Steel have a capacity of only a few kilobytes per square centimeter of storage medium.

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The 50, 000-year estimate is at odds with the chronology given in Asimov's later novels, in particular Foundation and Earth and The Caves of Steel.

Olivaw appears in Asimov's Robot and Foundation series, most notably in the novels The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, The Robots of Dawn, Robots and Empire, Prelude to Foundation, Forward the Foundation, Foundation and Earth.

He wears clothes and, in The Caves of Steel, cannot be told apart from a human unless he is seen in a situation where he refuses to violate the Three Laws of Robotics, and even in this case is indistinguishable from a particularly altruistic person.

Olivaw is introduced in the book The Caves of Steel where he is tasked to assist Elijah Baley in the investigation of the murder of his creator, Roj Nemennuh Sarton.

In the 1964 British television adaptation of The Caves of Steel ( an episode of the BBC2 series Story Parade ), R. Daneel Olivaw was played by John Carson ( actor ).

In the 1989 BBC Radio 4 adaptation of The Caves of Steel, Olivaw was played by Sam Dastor.

It is part of Asimov's Robot series, which consists of many short stories ( collected in I, Robot, The Rest of the Robots, and The Complete Robot ) and several novels ( The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, and The Robots of Dawn ).

It is clearly set a number of centuries prior to the events of his novelette " Mother Earth " and the novel The Caves of Steel, during a period in which the Spacer worlds have yet to turn against the people of the Earth, and in which the U. S. Robots corporation is still active.

Like its famous predecessor, The Caves of Steel, it is a whodunit story, in addition to being science fiction.

Caves can be dangerous places ; hypothermia, falling, flooding, falling rocks and physical exhaustion are the main risks.

Rising almost 100 m above the ground, the Batu Caves temple complex consists of three main caves and a few smaller ones.

Cave Junction's main point of interest is the Oregon Caves National Monument, which is a area of hiking trails and caverns.

All of the lines in the KTM network are single-track, except for the section of the main line between Ipoh railway station and Seremban railway station, and also the branch lines from Port Klang Komuter station to Batu Caves Komuter station and from Sungai Gadut Komuter station to Tanjung Malim railway station, which is now double tracked and electrified to 25 kV AC, to accommodate electric commuter trains, the KTM Class 92.

He is the main character of the novels The Caves of Steel, The Naked Sun and The Robots of Dawn, and of the short story " Mirror Image ".

The main historical sources are to be found in the Chinese histories ( particularly detailed during the Han and early Tang dynasties ), the accounts of several Chinese pilgrim monks, a few Buddhist histories of Hotan that have survived in Tibetan, and a large number of documents in Khotanese and other languages discovered, for the most part, early this century at various sites in the Tarim Basin and from the hidden library at the “ Caves of the Thousand Buddhas ” near Dunhuang.

In 1973, an SAF offensive intended to capture the main rebel supply base at Shershitti Caves was defeated, although an exposed position at Sarfait near the border with the PDRY was captured.

Located on the Southwestern end of Gaspar Grande, Point Baliene is one of the main drop off sites for visitors to the Gasparee Caves.

Its main attraction is Wyandotte Caves, which contains over fifty miles of underground caverns and one of the world's largest underground " mountains ".

The limestone in Victoria Fossil Cave and the other Naracoorte Caves contains are Australia's biggest source of fossils and a World Heritage site.

Madai Caves are famed as a source for swiftlet's nests used in bird's nest soup.

Caves which have populations of the Ozark cavefish all have a relatively large source of nutrients, such as bat guano or blown leaf litter.

It is now a major tourist destination with several cultural and community facilities, including the Cheddar Show Caves Museum.

The gorge is the site of the Cheddar Caves, where Cheddar Man was found in 1903.

Wookey Hole Caves is a show cave and tourist attraction in the village of Wookey Hole on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills near Wells in Somerset, England.

* The Diamond Sūtra, a woodblock printed Buddhist scripture dated 868, is discovered by Aurel Stein in the Mogao Caves in China ; it is " the earliest complete survival of a dated printed book ".

* Mid-6th century – Cave-Temple of Shiva at Elephanta Caves, Maharashtra, India, is built.

* Mid-6th century – Eternal Shiva, rock-cut relief in the Cave-Temple of Shiva at Elephanta Caves, is made

* A Bodhisattva ( detail of a wall painting in the Ajanta Caves ) in Maharashtra ( India ) of the Gupta period is made ( approximate date ).

* Keen is on the default high score list of Apogee's Monuments of Mars, Crystal Caves, Paganitzu, Realms of Chaos and Stargunner.

The oldest habitation discovered in the Philippines is located at the Tabon Caves and dates back to approximately 50, 000 years ; while items there found such as burial jars, earthenware, jade ornaments and other jewelry, stone tools, animal bones, and human fossils dating back to 47, 000 years ago.

The first documentation of the cotton gin by contemporary scholars is found in the fifth century AD, in the form of Buddhist paintings depicting a single-roller gin in the Ajanta Caves in western India.

The Adullam Caves park is a KKL park of 50, 000 dunams () of mostly pine forests, which were planted in the early years of the statehood, by Jewish immigrants who settled in the Lachish region.

Even earlier evidence for human occupation dating back as much as 14, 500 years ago is emerging from Paisley Caves in central Oregon.

One, a cave erosion arch made of limestone is located in Carter Caves State Park and it has a paved road on top.

* Kudepsta is another seashore resort, notable for the Vorontsov Caves, stretching for some four kilometers away from the shore.

A local attraction is Chislehurst Caves.

The park is the largest state forest in Indiana and surrounds the O ' Bannon Woods State Park and Wyandotte Caves, located in eastern Crawford County.

The plateau is traversed by the Kanangra Walls Road and can be accessed either from Oberon or Jenolan Caves.

The park is studded with granite outcrops and also features the Ashford Caves.

Featuring 260 million-year-old limestone formations, blind cave fish, and an underground pool, Rickwood Caverns is a recognized member of the National Caves Association, and offers more than a mile of living geology.

Naracoorte Caves is a national park near Naracoorte in the Limestone Coast tourism region in the south-east of South Australia ( Australia ).

Camooweal Caves is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 1720 km northwest of Brisbane.

Chillagoe-Mungana Caves is a national park in Queensland, Australia, 1455 km northwest of Brisbane.