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The Skeptics Guide #910 - Dec 17 2022

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The History of Science Fiction - Robots

The word robot came from the Latin for forced labor. The idea of a robot kind of goes back to the ancient Greeks. But obviously it's grown to mean so much more than that. Just like a non-human technological thing that does something, right? That does work. So I thought it would be fun to go into the historical dictionary of science fiction and talk about some common work.

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