I only learned of the origin of robot in connection with machines performing tasks for humans on Tildes when someone claimed that it was offensive to Czech people, making me google the origin (and...
I only learned of the origin of robot in connection with machines performing tasks for humans on Tildes when someone claimed that it was offensive to Czech people, making me google the origin (and correcting them in the process).
I've known of the word in its original meaning, but it's not something you use in day-to-day conversations, so it always was more in my passive vocabulary rather than my active one. It's just really cool yet unexpected that the origin is Czech, it's such a small country so it's fun to see us leaving a mark in the English language.
The word "Robot" is a hundred years old this month, from the first utterance in Karel Čapek's play in 1921 (R.U.R.: Rossum’s Universal Robots — highly recommended viewing) and Isaac Asimov...
The word "Robot" is a hundred years old this month, from the first utterance in Karel Čapek's play in 1921 (R.U.R.: Rossum’s Universal Robots — highly recommended viewing) and Isaac Asimov bringing it to the mainstream, we have come a long way.
Seconding the recommendation of RUR. A former girlfriend of mine put on this play a few years back and it was a cool viewing experience knowing that this is the first time the word "robot" was...
Seconding the recommendation of RUR. A former girlfriend of mine put on this play a few years back and it was a cool viewing experience knowing that this is the first time the word "robot" was used in this way. I thought it was really interesting how the philosophical understanding of "robot" is really the origin of the term - invented in service of grappling with themes of labour, humanity, and "the soul".
I only learned of the origin of robot in connection with machines performing tasks for humans on Tildes when someone claimed that it was offensive to Czech people, making me google the origin (and correcting them in the process).
I've known of the word in its original meaning, but it's not something you use in day-to-day conversations, so it always was more in my passive vocabulary rather than my active one. It's just really cool yet unexpected that the origin is Czech, it's such a small country so it's fun to see us leaving a mark in the English language.
The word "Robot" is a hundred years old this month, from the first utterance in Karel Čapek's play in 1921 (R.U.R.: Rossum’s Universal Robots — highly recommended viewing) and Isaac Asimov bringing it to the mainstream, we have come a long way.
Seconding the recommendation of RUR. A former girlfriend of mine put on this play a few years back and it was a cool viewing experience knowing that this is the first time the word "robot" was used in this way. I thought it was really interesting how the philosophical understanding of "robot" is really the origin of the term - invented in service of grappling with themes of labour, humanity, and "the soul".