HUMA 1905 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Amazing Stories, Mars Rover, Mental Substance
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The amazing science fiction (asf) magazine printed many stories about robots. It"s interesting to note that the stories were not meant to portray a world of robots necessarily. The robots are usually devices used to ask questions about the nature of humanity. The thematic purpose of robots is to question what is human, our fear of technology and the effects of technology on our lives. Many robot sci-fi stories relate back to the frankenstein syndrome. The stories can also have the purpose of showing people"s reaction to technology, or thematically speaking, to things we are unfamiliar with or can"t easily understand. Robot: means machines that does work of a person". Coined from a czech play where they use the word robota" which means work" or labour". November 2, 2017|jyoh: an example of an automaton was the giant bronze statue forged by the mythical.