The origin of a word "ROBOT" and more facts that might catch your interest
Because of a recent Gacktdom madness, I decided to spam you with some extra knowledge related to his recent work XDDDD Let´s play as if was the Gackt School at gackt.com open. :3
At first I want to pimp here Sweiled´s amazing translations of parts of Asakura´s report @ gackt.com.
You can find them at Eien no Yume fansite ( http://eiennoyume.com/ )
Here are links to all published parts till now (3 of 4)
http://www.eiennoyume.com/section/translation/internet/asakura_report_chapter_1.htm
http://www.eiennoyume.com/section/translation/internet/asakura_report_chapter_2.htm
http://www.eiennoyume.com/section/translation/internet/asakura_report_chapter_3.htm
In third part Sweiled pointed to name M.D. Domino Hallemeier, which is one of characters from this Asakura´s report and mentioned a drama named R.U.R., where is character named Domin. He is general manager of a factory that produces robots. Another character with same similar name is Dr. Hallemeier, who is head of the Institute for Psychological Training of Robots. His confidence is that robots are not able to love and that they don ´t have a soul, a passion, or their own will, but they suffer because of something like "robot´s cramp".
At this point I want to quote this:
The title "GHOST" doesn't mean the dead or ghosts for that matter, but is an expression of the "spirits that exist within machines".
"The mechanical screams of those who aren't human and are looking on at the human race" are resounding violently and painfully...
So I don ´t say that´s definitely true, but Gackt might be really intersted by play R.U.R. xD
Of course I am sure, that many people already know this, but maybe someone not and maybe there is somebody intersted to know it, so now is topic about a word ROBOT.
Because I can not say it better, I decided to copy this from wikipedia. *cought*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot
The word robot was introduced to the public by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), which premiered in 1921. The play begins in a factory that makes artificial people called robots, but they are closer to the modern ideas of androids and clones, creatures who can be mistaken for humans. They can plainly think for themselves, though they seem happy to serve. At issue is whether the robots are being exploited and the consequences of their treatment.
However, Karel Čapek himself did not coin the word; he wrote a short letter in reference to an etymology in the Oxford English Dictionary in which he named his brother, the painter and writer Josef Čapek, as its actual originator. In an article in the Czech journal Lidové noviny in 1933, he explained that he had originally wanted to call the creatures laboři (from Latin labor, work). However, he did not like the word, and sought advice from his brother Josef, who suggested "roboti". The word robota means literally work, labor or serf labor, and figuratively "drudgery" or "hard work" in Czech and many Slavic languages. Serfdom was outlawed in 1848 in Bohemia, so at the time Čapek wrote R.U.R., usage of the term robota had broadened to include various types of work, but the obsolete sense of "serfdom" would still have been known.
Another article comes from: http://www.robotics.utexas.edu/rrg/learn_more/history/
The acclaimed Czech playwright Karel Čapek (1890-1938) made the first use of the word ‘robot’, from the Czech word for forced labor or serf. Čapek was reportedly several times a candidate for the Nobel prize for his works and very influential and prolific as a writer and playwright.
The use of the word Robot was introduced into his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) which opened in Prague in January 1921.
In R.U.R., Čapek poses a paradise, where the machines initially bring so many benefits but in the end bring an equal amount of blight in the form of unemployment and social unrest.
The play was an enormous success and productions soon opened throughout Europe and the U.S. R.U.R's theme, in part, was the dehumanization of man in a technological civilization.
You may find it surprising that the robots were not mechanical in nature but were created through chemical means. In fact, in an essay written in 1935, Capek strongly fought that this idea was at all possible and, writing in the third person, said:
"It is with horror, frankly, that he rejects all responsibility for the idea that metal contraptions could ever replace human beings, and that by means of wires they could awaken something like life, love, or rebellion. He would deem this dark prospect to be either an overestimation of machines, or a grave offence against life."
[The Author of Robots Defends Himself - Karl Capek, Lidove noviny, June 9, 1935, translation: Bean Comrada]
There is some evidence that the word robot was actually coined by Karl's brother Josef, a writer in his own right. In a short letter, Capek writes that he asked Josef what he should call the artificial workers in his new play.
Karel suggests Labori, which he thinks too 'bookish' and his brother mutters "then call them Robots" and turns back to his work, and so from a curt response we have the word robot.
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Heh, for now I think it´s enought :3 If you read this all, you deserves Gackt shaped cookies :P
Thanks, Maraja
At first I want to pimp here Sweiled´s amazing translations of parts of Asakura´s report @ gackt.com.
You can find them at Eien no Yume fansite ( http://eiennoyume.com/ )
Here are links to all published parts till now (3 of 4)
http://www.eiennoyume.com/section/translation/internet/asakura_report_chapter_1.htm
http://www.eiennoyume.com/section/translation/internet/asakura_report_chapter_2.htm
http://www.eiennoyume.com/section/translation/internet/asakura_report_chapter_3.htm
In third part Sweiled pointed to name M.D. Domino Hallemeier, which is one of characters from this Asakura´s report and mentioned a drama named R.U.R., where is character named Domin. He is general manager of a factory that produces robots. Another character with same similar name is Dr. Hallemeier, who is head of the Institute for Psychological Training of Robots. His confidence is that robots are not able to love and that they don ´t have a soul, a passion, or their own will, but they suffer because of something like "robot´s cramp".
At this point I want to quote this:
The title "GHOST" doesn't mean the dead or ghosts for that matter, but is an expression of the "spirits that exist within machines".
"The mechanical screams of those who aren't human and are looking on at the human race" are resounding violently and painfully...
So I don ´t say that´s definitely true, but Gackt might be really intersted by play R.U.R. xD
Of course I am sure, that many people already know this, but maybe someone not and maybe there is somebody intersted to know it, so now is topic about a word ROBOT.
Because I can not say it better, I decided to copy this from wikipedia. *cought*
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot
The word robot was introduced to the public by Czech writer Karel Čapek in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), which premiered in 1921. The play begins in a factory that makes artificial people called robots, but they are closer to the modern ideas of androids and clones, creatures who can be mistaken for humans. They can plainly think for themselves, though they seem happy to serve. At issue is whether the robots are being exploited and the consequences of their treatment.
However, Karel Čapek himself did not coin the word; he wrote a short letter in reference to an etymology in the Oxford English Dictionary in which he named his brother, the painter and writer Josef Čapek, as its actual originator. In an article in the Czech journal Lidové noviny in 1933, he explained that he had originally wanted to call the creatures laboři (from Latin labor, work). However, he did not like the word, and sought advice from his brother Josef, who suggested "roboti". The word robota means literally work, labor or serf labor, and figuratively "drudgery" or "hard work" in Czech and many Slavic languages. Serfdom was outlawed in 1848 in Bohemia, so at the time Čapek wrote R.U.R., usage of the term robota had broadened to include various types of work, but the obsolete sense of "serfdom" would still have been known.
Another article comes from: http://www.robotics.utexas.edu/rrg/learn_more/history/
The acclaimed Czech playwright Karel Čapek (1890-1938) made the first use of the word ‘robot’, from the Czech word for forced labor or serf. Čapek was reportedly several times a candidate for the Nobel prize for his works and very influential and prolific as a writer and playwright.
The use of the word Robot was introduced into his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) which opened in Prague in January 1921.
In R.U.R., Čapek poses a paradise, where the machines initially bring so many benefits but in the end bring an equal amount of blight in the form of unemployment and social unrest.
The play was an enormous success and productions soon opened throughout Europe and the U.S. R.U.R's theme, in part, was the dehumanization of man in a technological civilization.
You may find it surprising that the robots were not mechanical in nature but were created through chemical means. In fact, in an essay written in 1935, Capek strongly fought that this idea was at all possible and, writing in the third person, said:
"It is with horror, frankly, that he rejects all responsibility for the idea that metal contraptions could ever replace human beings, and that by means of wires they could awaken something like life, love, or rebellion. He would deem this dark prospect to be either an overestimation of machines, or a grave offence against life."
[The Author of Robots Defends Himself - Karl Capek, Lidove noviny, June 9, 1935, translation: Bean Comrada]
There is some evidence that the word robot was actually coined by Karl's brother Josef, a writer in his own right. In a short letter, Capek writes that he asked Josef what he should call the artificial workers in his new play.
Karel suggests Labori, which he thinks too 'bookish' and his brother mutters "then call them Robots" and turns back to his work, and so from a curt response we have the word robot.
*************
Heh, for now I think it´s enought :3 If you read this all, you deserves Gackt shaped cookies :P
Thanks, Maraja