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Tag Archives: Karel Capek
utopia: machines triumphant
Utopians were prophets in the sense of predicting the future and also prophets in the sense of castigating the present; a vision of things as they should be was also a reproach to things as they are. One of the … Continue reading
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Tagged H.G. Wells, H.G. Wells A Modern Utopia, H.G. Wells When the Sleeper Wakes, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Karel Capek, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Samuel Butler, Samuel Butler Erewhon, William Morris, William Morris News From Nowhere
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ROBOT CHRISTMAS: Cyborg Santa
Is this the future? H.G. Wells reviewing Metropolis, 1927: “But Rotwang, the inventor, is making a Robot, apparently without any license from Capek, the original patentee. It is to look and work like a human being, but it is to … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous
Tagged Amy Van Vechten, Archibald Campion, Ben Rollman, Chi Chi Zhang, Chris Jablonski, Fernando Orellana, Fritz Lang, Fritz Lang Metropolis, Greg Brotherton, H.G. Wells, Karel Capek, Ken Teh, Leonel Moura, Mike Rivamonte, Paul Guinan, Robot Waiters, Robotics, Roland Piquepaille, Thomas Ricker
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