Dancing Robots

[mcspade]

When ever I see advancements in robotics, I see more humans out of work.

[handrawn]

a self-aware artificial intelligent being

as in the story I referenced in post #8 above - think it was in robert sheckley's untouched by human hands, but that's from memory and as we live in a chaotic book depositry cum studio rather than a house it may take some finding to check...

that would place it in the early '50s

so much written then is coming to pass...

[Gare]

I think the original idea was to create automated machinery to allow humans to avoid tedious and dangerous jobs.

Today, right now, AI machines are used in farm fields to sow seeds and reap fruit. That's a job no one wants for what it pays, right?

The humans versus machines scenario was perhaps shown best in the play "RUR"—Rossum's Universal Robots, the firt time the word "robot was used, coined.

Big political play. Shame Cameron hasn't tried to re-imagine it.

1921. I think this is an original version of the play.