![]() So, as soon as someone invented the idea of a "robot," their very next thought was obviously "robot rebellion."Īsimov called this "the Frankenstein complex"-the worry that the robots we make will turn against us-and he was sick of it. ![]() This basic robot-gone-rebel story even gets repeated in the very first work of science fiction to use the word "robot": Czech author Karel Capek's 1920 play RUR. By contrast, clocks rarely try to kill us-although there is the Melville story "The Bell-Tower," where a clock kills its creator, so maybe we should watch out for those sneaky clocks, too. This "technology out of control" story gets repeated a lot, especially if the technology at hand is a robot or computer. But at the same time, tons of science fiction stories out there warn us that our technology is going to kill us, from the novel Frankensteinto the movie…well, almost all science fiction movies tell us to watch out for technology: The Matrix, Terminator, Jurassic Park, Planet of the Apes, and the list goes on. ![]() That never happened to you? Actually, that never happened to us, either in fact, cases of malfunctioning and bloodthirsty technology are pretty uncommon. Do you remember that time your cellphone said, "I no longer work for you, puny human," and then tried to kill you? ![]()
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