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I'd say Mary Shelley or, at the latest, Karel Čapek beat Wiener to the punch there.
by bitwize 3y ago
I'd say Mary Shelley or, at the latest, Karel Čapek beat Wiener to the punch there.
- thangalin 3y agoTalos was a Greek automaton (having images dated to 400 BCE) whose creator, Hephaestus, has a name that may be traceable to the Proto-Indo-European word *h₁n̥gʷnís meaning an animate fire, which goes back to 1500 BCE. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talos * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hephaestus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hephaestus * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_worship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_worship * https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/h%E2%82%81n%CC%A5g%CA%B7n%C3%ADs\\\ https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur...*
- dredmorbius 3y agoOr Prometheus. (Explicitly referenced in the title to Shelley's most famous work.)
- bitwize 3y agoCome to think of it, the Hebrews -- with their stories of the golem -- may have predated the Greeks on this.
- dredmorbius 3y agoHuh. I'm familiar with the concept, I'd no idea it was that old. (Much of my familiarity comes from the Selected Shorts / Isaiah Sheffer reading of a short story on the topic. I can't find a recording or mention, and don't know the author.