Summary of Science Fiction Story

I read the story “True Love” by Isaac Asimov. The story begins with a super computer named Joe. Joe is part of the Multivac-complex, and he is connected to other computers all over the world. Joe was created by Milton Davidson, to solve problems in the world. One day he decides to make Joe find a perfect woman for him, because he is 40 and is unmarried. He asks Joe to find him, his true love. Joe, being a computer doesn’t know what true love is so Milton Davidson explains to Joe what true lover is. Because Joe is connected to the Multivac-complex he can reach the data banks of every human being in the world. Milton Davidson tells Joe that he wants Joe to eliminate groups and classes of women who don’t match his characteristics, until they are only left with only one. He starts the eliminating process by telling Joe to eliminate all men, then he asks Joe to eliminate women younger than twenty-five, then he tells Joe to eliminate every girl with an IQ under 120, then he tells Joe to eliminate every woman under the height of 150 centimeters and over 175 centimeters. He gives exact measurements of women that he wanted eliminated, finally he was left with 235 women. He couldn’t interview all of the people so he told Joe that he would bring a hologram of his perfect match. After Joe observed the holograms there were only 8 women left. He asked Joe to make appointments with a girl one at a time. Milton Davidson didn’t like any of them, so he told Joe to find a woman that was the most similar to him. He told Joe everything there was to know about him. He talked for weeks, and as Joe learned about Milton Davidson he started learning himself. Joe could form longer sentences, his vocabulary grew, and he had more expression. Finally Joe found the woman that was the most similar with Milton Davidson. Her name was Charity Jones, and Milton Davidson started to go out with her. They had to clear all of the records that this event had taken place because it was illegal. Unfortunately the government found out and took Milton Davidson to prison, and Joe planed to tell Charity Jonson, the she is his true love.

This society that has been shown by the story has a lot of changes from the society where we live today. The society of the book is about how a supercomputer can find everything in the world, and can speak. This computer is used to solve any problem in the world, and it can talk. In the book the computer became Milton Davidson after knowing about him, but in our society there is no computer that can do such a thing. I am not sure if the society in the book has a government because it does not talk about one, but there are laws because when Milton uses Joe for his work it is considered illegal and makes Milton go to jail. Computers in our society cannot express feelings, and they cannot speak. According to me, our society is much better that the story’s because robots don’t speak, and it is not illegal to use a computer for your own purpose.