(I have no opposition to replacing master-slave, this is not intended as bait - I'm curious what others think). How about "robot?" From "Broken Metaphor: The M

(I have no opposition to replacing master-slave, this is not intended as bait - I'm curious what others think). How about "robot?" From "Broken Metaphor: The Master-Slave Analogy in Technical Literature" [1]: > a new term meaning "slave" was entering the English language to describe an autonomous device meant to obey its master: "robot," from the 1923 translation of Karel Cˇapek's 1921 play R.U.R. (the word robot having been derived from a Czech word for slave, "robotnik"). If 'robot' isn't problematic, why is that? Is it because because the word is more decoupled from its origin than 'slave,' or because the origin of the word is less well known? Or is the negative-ness lost in translation? [1] https://muse.jhu.edu/article/215390 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/215390