Within the next ten years Rossum's Universal Robots will produce so much wheat, so much cloth, so much everything that things will no longer have any… - Karel Čapek

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Within the next ten years Rossum's Universal Robots will produce so much wheat, so much cloth, so much everything that things will no longer have any value. Everyone will be able to take as much as he needs. There'll be no more poverty. Yes, people will be out of work, but by then there'll be no work left to be done. Everything will be done by living machines. People will do only what they enjoy. They will live only to perfect themselves... But before that some awful things may happen, Miss Glory. That just can't be avoided. But then the subjugation of man by man and the slavery of man to matter will cease. Never again will anyone pay for his bread with hatred and his life. There'll be no more laborers, no more secretaries. No one will have to mine coal or slave over someone else's machines. No longer will man need to destroy his soul doing work that he hates.

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About Karel Čapek

Karel Čapek (January 9, 1890 – December 25, 1938) was a Czech author and playwright, who introduced and made popular the word robot as a word for artificial human beings, which first appeared in his play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) in 1920.

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Pen Names: K. Č. B. Č. Karel Plocek Karel Vašek
Alternative Names: Karel Capek
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but within the next ten years Rossum’s Universal Robots will produce so much wheat, so much cloth, so much everything that things will no longer have any value. Everyone will be able to take as much as he needs. There’ll be no more poverty. Yes, people will be out of work, but by then there’ll be no work left to be done. Everything will be done by living machines. People will do only what they enjoy. They will live only to perfect themselves.

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Chtěl jste bojovat proti válce; zatím však bojujete proti zákonu. Porušit zákon je mravně dovoleno jen ve jménu vyššího a ušlechtilejšího zákona. Který je vyšší zákon, o nějž se zasazujete? Ano: nezabíjet. Je však ještě vyšší zákon: položit život “za to, co větší je než já”. Vojáku Vladimíre, to větší je národ. Neodsuzuji vás proto, že nechcete zabíjet – kdo by mohl odsuzovat vůli tak ušlechtilou? –, ale proto, že nechcete položit život za něco, co je větší než vy. Jste vinen, že jste nepomyslil na tuto hodnotu. Celé pasívní hrdinství vaší oběti se nevyrovná aktivnímu hrdinství obyčejného vojáka, který přijímá riziko své povinnosti. Není doba pro zbytečné mučednictví; prosté věci, jako poslušnost, jsou dnes vážnější lidskou obětí.

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