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" "I wanted man to become a master! So he wouldn't have to live from hand to mouth! I didn't want to see another soul grow numb slaving over someone else's machines! I wanted there to be nothing, nothing, nothing left of that damned social mess! I abhorred degradation and suffering! I was fighting against poverty! I wanted a new generation of mankind! ... I wanted to transform all of humanity into a world-wide aristocracy. Unrestricted, free, and supreme people. Something even greater than people.
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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I wanted man to become master! So he wouldn’t have to live from hand to mouth! I didn’t want to see another soul grow numb slaving over someone else’s machines! I wanted there to be nothing, nothing, nothing left of that damned mess of a social hierarchy! I abhorred degradation and suffering! I was fighting against poverty! I wanted a new generation of mankind! I wanted ... I thought ...
není tak daleko od nás, jak povídají tato cizokrajná jména; je blízko, je na dosah našich srdcí a snad, snad i na dosah pomocné ruky; ale rozhodně dosti blízko, aby otřásl naším mozkem a probudil jej z letargie. Člověk dvacátého století nepoloží tváří v tvář této hrůze otázku Bohu, zda je, či není; ale položí otázku lidstvu, zda je, či není; a to je otázka, jež teď, a zvláště teď po světové válce, je hroznější a osudnější, než kdy byla jaká otázka po Bohu. Není to otázka humanity, nýbrž civilizace.
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