Well, it frakkin ended.

[Kevin]

Hi,

Just a minor aside:
As a matter of fact, the first use of the word 'robot' is in a play, R.U.R. by Karel Čapek, 1921, in which the robots take over.

Just a FYI:)

--Pete

I knew there was work from the 30's with robots taking over, I seem to recall something in the 1890's even where mechanized creations took over as well, but I wasn't sure at the time of posting and didn't feel like looking it up. So I took the safe route of a shorter timespan, even though I couched it in a long time frame term by using century. I knew there was pre WWII stuff, but I keep forgetting that war started over 70 years ago now. A little quirk of mine is that when I think about "history" as I learned it, not as I lived it, everything dates from about 1985 or so unless I recalculate it. :) Not completely sure why that is, as it doesn't correlate well to when I learned most of it (I was 10 in 1985). But that is just where my memory for X years ago is calibrated when I'm not really thinking and talking about something in the past. So when I said over half a century, my mind was thinking 1935ish. Which is still over a decade off from the first use of the word robot and still nearly half a century off if my memory is right about the concept of mechanical creations taking over humanity being put into print. :)