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LOOKOUT FA CHARLIE RESEARCH- MUSICIANS, AUDIO, SOUND
10 MINUTE MARK IF YOU ARE IN A HURRY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EMvU6SeO_E
FRANKENSTEIN - DEFINE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. IT WAS WAS LONG AGO ACHIEVED
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10509580902986369?journalCode=gerr20 excerpt quote: "Long before Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was published in 1818, an author penned a story that resembles it on more than one account: François‐Félix Nogaret, Le Miroir des évènemens contemporains, ou la belle au plus bidder(The Looking Glass of Actuality, or Beauty to the Highest Bidder, 1790). Nogaret's story about an inventor named Frankenstein who builds an artificial man is an astounding precursor, especially since the Revolution and its attempt to make a “new man” have long focused interpretations of Shelley's work. Both texts ask whether technological innovation will help or hinder human progress, and provide answers reflecting their differing historical and ideological contexts. What seemed possible in 1790 was later viewed with skepticism, including by Nogaret himself in subsequent editions of Le Miroir (1795, 1800). The tension between enthusiasm and disdain for t
People are the Robots! Robot 1920s: from Czech word robota, ‘forced labor’.
YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY? These “robots” are physically identical to humans, with the strength and capabilities to work . However, they initially lack feelings and sentiments and thus do not need necessities like salaries as they lack the desire or need to spend money. https://3seaseurope.com/afraid-of-robots-taking-over-the-world-blame-czechs-who-invented-them/ ARCHIVED https://archive.is/PTjBh https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Capek https://www.jstor.org/stable/4213057 YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY? -------------------- By the early years of the Great Depression, the robot-as-machine was a commonplace in popular and labor media. Whether writers deployed it as a negative symbol of unemployment and cheapened culture, or as a symbol of technological innovation and progress, the robot of the 1930s was mechanical rather than organic. https://escholarship.org/content/qt0jm096mm/qt0jm096mm_noSplash_5416fdd39c92681edc113e16c1a7d9db.pdf ------------------