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On this day in 1938, BBC Television aired the first science fiction TV program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R.. This play is also famous for coining the term "robot" from (stefanbohacek.online)
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On this day in 1938, BBC Television aired the first science fiction TV program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R.. This play is also famous for coining the term "robot" from the word "labour".

Article from 2016: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/78-years-ago-today-bbc-aired-first-science-fiction-television-program-180958126/

More about the play: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

@[email protected] More specifically, forced or slave labour. From the slavic root "rab" - slave.