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quotingRossumovi Univerzální Roboti?
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What really riles me when I see captcha prompts asking: "are you a robot?"
I am like: "Who wants to know? However, yes, I am part of the proletariat! I guess, you, since you're asking, presumably aren't?"
Alas, I don't know who it was (maybe Asimov? Who demeaned "robot" into something to instead be synonymous with mecha and automata [which predated robots by at least centuries, perhaps longer based on some Roman era records] and seemed to erase the whole: "no war, but class war" which was the underlying theme of R.U.R., the play which was the origin story of the term robot. Robot uprising, is a canonical association, not a fluke.)
I mean, I too, as a corporeally incarnated human of the late 20th century, encountered the demeaned phrasing of "robot" with all sorts of toys and Scientific American articles about car factories being filled with "robots" replacing pre-NAFTA auto workers (who would be even further terminated and outsourced to cheaper laborers outside of the USA, after NAFTA). Yet, for some reason I had some relatives who attempted to tell me that "robot" was closer to being synonymous with "slave" as a means to educate me about its etymology and my high school even put on a play of R.U.R.
Oddly, or perhaps not surprisingly? There has never been a film adaptation of R.U.R. as far as I know? We got Will Smith in I, Robot (again, Asimov); we have a multiplicity of Transformers ("Robots in disguise"? Disguised from what I wonder?) movies, yet there remains a glaring omission of a film version of the R.U.R. robot origin story on the silver screen.
Meanwhile, the lived experience, in a society which continues to operate with the predominantly demeaned Asimovian phrasing of robot? Remains: repugnant.