8/18/2008

Robots and the future

At the beginning of the century, and especially in the fifties and sixties, science fiction found a great source in which to draw avanzadísimos progress of electronics.

The arrival of man into space, the massive expansion and consumer appliances, the speed with which new media carried the news, etc.., Gave rise to think that the future offered a magical scene in which everything was possible. The machines could take over without the slightest inconvenience, because if there appliances such as television or spacecraft, how could not reach where human ingenuity?.

The robots were very fashionable and began to populate the pages of the press, cinema, literature, etc.. Certain androids invented by the human mind could work, exercising the functions less pleasant for men.

The washing machines, vacuum cleaners, sewing machines and all kinds of appliances offered a very encouraging picture for housewives; factories also began to use artificial equipment to increase yields, lowering production costs.

More gender, cheaper and less time, this seemed the slogan of the last stage of the industrial revolution, a phenomenon emerged in the late eighteenth century, but continued his unstoppable career, who falls down. Many see this proliferation of machinery an obvious cause to which blamed part of the blame to another social phenomenon: unemployment.

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