The week in radio: The Rise of the Robots; I, Robot; In Our Time: John Clare
by Andrew Anthony from Technology | The Guardian on (#2CCSS)
Isaac Asimov's prophetic play and Adam Rutherford's The Rise of the Robots revealed that our fear of machines is nothing new
The Rise of the Robots (R4) | iPlayer
Isaac Asimov's I, Robot (R4) | iPlayer
In Our Time (R4) | iPlayer
It's said that there was a time when a well-educated individual could be an authority on all the most important areas of science, art and culture. Although that period, if it ever existed, is long passed, you can sometimes believe it's possible to re-enter it by listening, almost indiscriminately, to Radio 4. Did you know, for example, that the word "robot" comes from an old Slavonic word for slave or actually, more accurately, "forced labour"?
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