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The Robot Uprising Turns 70 Today

Lawn Guylander — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:26:45 PST

It's from the Czech word Robota!!! (which also happens to be the Slovak word, b/c the two languages only differ by like 2 letters) But nonetheless.....CZECH!!!

Lawn Guylander

The Robot Uprising Turns 70 Today

Front_Towards_Enemy — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 05:18:45 PST

I, for one, welcome our R.U.R. robot overlords.

Front_Towards_Enemy

The Robot Uprising Turns 70 Today

strider_mt2k — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:00:56 PST

Love robots.

(Not like THAT stupid!)

Excuse me.

strider_mt2k

The Robot Uprising Turns 70 Today

Slatz_Grobnik — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 22:40:09 PST

@SeanOHara: Of course, you've the pick of the litter for the reasons why, and what that ultimately means. Personally, I like it as the underlying fear of just what it means to create things "just like us," when we're not all that swift.

Slatz_Grobnik

The Robot Uprising Turns 70 Today

SeanOHara — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:03:10 PST

The amazing part is just how much the plot resembles subsequent machines-take-over-the-world stories, right down to The Animatrix and I, Robot.

SeanOHara

The Robot Uprising Turns 70 Today

Eac_o_System — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:48:32 PST

Happy Birthday, crazy genre.

Eac_o_System

The Robot Uprising Turns 70 Today

braak — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:57:31 PST

Interestingly, in the play R.U.R., the Robots aren't machines at all, but a complex kind of biological construct, made out of primordial protoplasm.

Also, it's a really good play.

braak

The Robot Uprising Turns 70 Today

Annalee Newitz — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:33:30 PST

Asimov has written in several places that RUR was the inspiration for his own work.

Annalee Newitz