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Listening 2 Daft Punk: Homework
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The Fear of Robots
In 1918, Harry Houdini's The Master Mystery featured an automaton called Q. He was the embodiment of fear and could have been written by a chat bot. So robot-related anxiety has been around for at least a century is what you're telling me, Charles? Yeah, actually, we finally get the word robot from Carol Capic in 1920s play RUR - Rossum's Universal Robots. And robot comes from Robota, which is, I guess, check for work. That underlying concern about robots replacing us and doing work for us, yeah, it's about 100 years old.
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