Robots al ataque.(El Angel)

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From: Reforma (México D.F., México)
Date: 20040822
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Byline: Rafael Aviña

En 1920, el escritor checo Karel Capek concibió el término robot en alusión a esa suerte de imitación metálica del hombre vista tanto como una máquina maravillosa, como un peligro latente para la humanidad. Es decir, desde Capek se planteaba ya la disyuntiva de que los robots pudieran suplantar al hombre, revelándose a sus creadores como sucedía en la espléndida novela de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein o el moderno Prometeo, escrita hacia 1816, cuya criatura, pese a no estar hecha de metal y plástico, sino de trozos de cadáver, ...

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