Heinlein is invoked in this review of Michael J. Cavallaro’s Cybernetica:
From Ursula K. LeGuin to Robert Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard to Phillip K. Dick, there is a broad array of ideological and sociological discussion at play in most science fiction (whether conscious or not). In contrast to the many tales of robots run amok, Issac Asimov calmly interposed his three laws of robotics, arguing that fears of killer robots (or HAL, for that matter) were little more than the contemporary version of Frankenstein’s monster or the ancient tale of the Golem. Regardless, science fiction has always served as a vehicle for displaying our culture’s fears (and occasionally its loftier aspirations as well).
Beings with artificial intelligence often were characters in Heinlein novels, but he never really got into the social or political ramifications, as I recall.
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