This was much better than the short story vignettes of I Robot series. You can see where some of the world building components of those short stories made it to this book. Although some of the characters act in unnatural feeling ways to scenarios I still very much enjoyed the story over all and felt engaged by it. The anachronisms provide an interesting snapshot of what mid-20th century views of super far future stuff would be like or the problems we face. The biggest anachronism being that the entire population of Earth or 8 billion could only be supported by using giant factory food production units making yeast based synthetic foods not growing it. There was even a quip about billions starving if they went back to growing food. Meanwhile earth passed that population point a couple years ago.