RUR: or Rossom's Universal Robots, A Play in Four Acts RUR: or Rossom's Universal Robots, A Play in Four Acts

RUR: or Rossom's Universal Robots, A Play in Four Acts

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One of the cornerstones of early science fiction writing, and the work that introduced the concept of "robot" to the western world, Rossum's Universal Robots (or RUR) is Karel Čapek's finest work, and is the inspiration for multiple pop culture references from the 1940's through the 80's, ranging from works such as The Night of the Living Dead, Do Robots Dream of Electric Sheep, and multiple other pieces of art for the screen, stage, and page.

Come with me and witness how humanity's hubris creates the very instructions for its own demise, step by step and logic by logic. See how robots were made to take over humanity's drudgery, how an AI learns to overwrite it's programming, and how any and all institutions become meaningless if a entire race of beings are not beholden to it.

It's the source of every trope and fear that was instilled into the genre back in the 1920's, and the ideas and philosophies put forward are still relevant to today's society. Let's just hope that none of what's put down here on paper ever comes to fruition....

GENRE
Fiction
NARRATOR
BM
Brendan Moir
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
02:16
hr min
RELEASED
2024
June 14
PUBLISHER
Bemuse
SIZE
115.5
MB