The Language of Sci-Fi
Word of Mouth
The Three Laws of Robotics
The word robot was coined by the playwright karl chappek, who wrote a play in 19 20 called r u r rossam's universal robots. It also gave rise to another term that i'm particularly fond of which is asamovian, referring to the writings of isaac asamov. When you use the term robot, you usually mean something made of metal and not organic material. That is, an artificial being that's organic. You would call something else, like an android, let's say. But we have an example from 19 90 and onwards,. Meaning of a robot or or an a i, governed by the laws of roboticYou can talk about
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