Maria – Robot Debut to the Silver Screen
Maria is the creation of Fritz Lang’s 1927 film Metropolis, probably the first Robot or Android on the ’silver screen’.
Dean Meadows
"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." Wittgenstein
BBC SCIENCE
- Army to get new camouflage December 20, 2009The Ministry of Defence is to replace all existing British Army uniforms with a new design, the first big change in over 40 years.
- Orangutan takes her own photos December 20, 2009An orangutan who has learned how to take photographs with a simple camera now has around 70,000 fans on the social networking website Facebook.
- Philippine volcano 'still a danger' December 20, 2009Experts in the Philippines say the volcano, Mount Mayon, could erupt violently within days.
- Last Indian dancing bear set free December 18, 2009Animal rights campaigners are celebrating the end of a seven-year campaign to see all of India's dancing bears set free.
- Technology firms boost US economy December 18, 2009Strong earnings from Oracle and Research in Motion lift hopes for the world's biggest economy.
Blogroll
Books
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep – Philip. K. Dick
- Introducing Human Geographies – Professor Paul Cloke et al
- Love and Sex with Robots by David Levy
- The Buddha in the Robot by Masahiro Mori
- The Senses of Touch: Haptics, Affects and Technologies by Mark Paterson
- The Social Construction of What? by Ian Hacking
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