From Golem To Cyborg: On the Cultural Evolution of Concept ofRobots
Jana Hořáková, Jozef Kelemen · 2005
During the 20th century, the concept of the machine in science and society changed almost completely. This contribution sketches, starting from the time of myths, two important ways - the way of traditional culture (mainly the literature and theatre), and the ways of science and technology - of this change initiated by highly influential personalities of the 20th century - by the (play)writer Karel Capek, by mathematicians Alan M.Turing and John von Neumann, and by some others.