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Some of the earliest homegrown Japanese sci-fi prominently featured heroic, humanlike robots. I wonder to what extent that was a symptom of existing attitudes v
by PhasmaFelis 8y ago
Some of the earliest homegrown Japanese sci-fi prominently featured heroic, humanlike robots. I wonder to what extent that was a symptom of existing attitudes vs. a cause of later ones.
- krapp 8y ago> I wonder to what extent that was a symptom of existing attitudes vs. a cause of later ones. Very likely, given that Astro Boy started soon after the end of World War 2. I can imagine that themes of using technology for good rather than harm were appealing to a country that had just seen what harm technology could do first hand.