> >Though R.U.R. is optimistic.
>
> Yup, the entire human race has been wiped out bt robots gone bad, except
> for one old fart who manages to invent a male and female who replicate
> sexually. My kind of optimism.
I think we're into is the glass half full or half empty terrotory here. My
reading would be that the end leaves us with an Adam&Eve couple who will go
on to create a better world. Robor's Unfallen Androids.
It always mildly freaks me that the term "android" (which is what we'd now
call the figures in R.U.R.) exists in English well before "robot" (which
enters via the brothers Capek's play).
Counterintuive, that, for all of me.
Robin
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