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?
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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
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HUMANS/ PEOPLE are the robots.
Many are shiny, happy AI people.Most Haven't figured this out yet.
1920s: from Czech, from robota ‘forced labor’. The term was coined in K. Čapek's play R.U.R. ‘Rossum's Universal Robots’ (1920)
Many are shiny, happy people. Some are suffering people.
Most Haven't figured it out yet.
1920s: from Czech, from robota ‘forced labor’. The term was coined in K. Čapek's play R.U.R. ‘Rossum's Universal Robots’ (1920)
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