Response to "All the Troubles of the World"

The short story "All the Troubles of the World" by Isaac Asimov has provided its readers a very creative and unbelievable world. In that world, a giant computer called Multivac controls the world. It has the power to predict things that are going to happen in the future such as potential crimes. Multivac has human emotions which kind of frightened me. At the end of the story, the omniscient Multivac desires nothing but to kill itself. It wants to be shut down permanently.

Why is this? I asked myself this question and the answer that came to my mind was humans had given too much pressure on it. Because Multivac has amazing abilities such as predicting imminent things, humans are starting to rely too much on it. They tend to have excessive expects on the magic computer which eventually leads Multivac to become unbearable of all the pressure.

Now here comes the question. Should there be a Multivac in our real life? In my perspective, I think Multivac is although impressive but not necessary in human's life. This is because we, as human beings should have the power to control our own lives. We should not be dominated by technologies. Moreover, if there's no Multivac in the world, everyone would rely on themselves which is much more beneficial than to rely on a machine.