that we arrive at the point of raising the question how to make the One into something that holds up, that is, that is counted without being. Mathematization alone reaches a real [...] a real that has nothing to do with what traditional kno…Vinge, V. (1993) The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era. Lewis Research Center, Vision 21: Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in the Era of Cyberspace: pp. 11–22.
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Karel Čapek
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Karel Čapek is the Czech writer and playwright who coined the term "robot" in his 1920 play *R.U.R.* (*Rossum's Universal Robots*), making him foundational to how we linguistically and conceptually frame artificial beings and labor automation. The course readings invoke Čapek as a progenitor of the anxiety surrounding machinic autonomy and the blurring of human/non-human categories that now structures contemporary debates in AI ethics and cybernetics. His early dramatization of the robot problem—the question of what happens when artificial servants become indistinguishable from or superior to their creators—remains the philosophical bedrock for discussions about technological singularity and post-human futures referenced in the course's engagement with Vinge and other futurist texts.
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