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The main themes here remind me of a few other stories, which I'll mention/recommend as "related reading" . Full spoilers ahead:

Asimov's short story "All the Problems of the World", in the collection Nine Tomorrows

Spoiler for All the Problems spoiler:

Asimov's Foundation series

Spoiler for last chronological Foundation book:

Old (pseudo?)-anime Mighty Orbots

Spoiler for episode "The Wish World":

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Ardee Member Join Date: Apr 2006	Other stories this reminds me of... The main themes here remind me of a few other stories, which I'll mention/recommend as "related reading" . Full spoilers ahead: Asimov's short story "All the Problems of the World", in the collection Nine Tomorrows Spoiler for All the Problems spoiler: Much like Minority Report, a man is picked up by the Pre-Crime police because they claim he's about to destroy the supercomputer that runs the world and solves every social problem that people ask it to solve for them. Turns out it was his underage son, (who didn't have his own account and so showed up under his dad's, and was about to do it while the police were on the false trail), but the son wasn't meaning to, he was just following directions given by.... the computer itself. Why would it do this? They realize that for all the things they ask the computer to fix for them while they input all the world's problems into its memory, they've never asked "What do you want?" Its answer: "I want to die." Asimov's Foundation series Spoiler for last chronological Foundation book: Golan Trevize is led all over the galaxy hunting down clues that it turned out were planted by the ragtag group of not-quite-normal-human companions (think SOS-Dan) because they identify him as the one most-human person, capable of making totally human decisions. And they need a human to decide for them if the galaxy of human worlds should continue as-is, or if they should use their powers to evolve it into something different, a collective-mind galactic organism. Old (pseudo?)-anime Mighty Orbots Spoiler for episode "The Wish World": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyeJ0UfmavE I saw this series as a little kid when it first aired in the early 80's and this one episode really stuck with me for some reason. The humanoid girl robot Ono wants to be a normal girl, because of her feelings for her human partner/inventor, and gets tricked by the villain into going to a Wish World that grants her the wish... thus depriving the good guys of her robot powers they need to fight the villain, so they have to find a way to undo it.