A team of Temporalists send robot RG-32 200 years into the future where it seems to almost all that mankind is doing better than expected on Earth and in space.
RG-32 was a rather old-fashioned robot, eminently replaceable. He could observe and report, perhaps without quite the ingenuity and penetration of a human being—but well enough. He would be without fear, intent only on following orders, and he could be expected to tell the truth.

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  1. “Robot Visions” by Isaac Asimov, in Asimov’s Science Fiction, April 1991.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Isaac Asimov