Today is the birthday of Karel Čapek, who is attributed with popularizing the term “robot,” which he introduced in his 1921 play “Rossum’s Universal Robots” (or R.U.R.). He gives credit to his brother Josef for inventing the word, which has its roots in the Slovak word robota which translates literally to “serf labor.” Čapek is [...]
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PlasticularInscriptor is the digital external brain-repository of Ryan Todd, whose brain otherwise occupies space in San Francisco, CA.
Currently in the process of iteratively redesigning the site using the Sandbox theme as a base. (last update, July 22, 2008, 00:31 PST)
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