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I, RobotJANUARY 16, 2014

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, Mary Shelley, 1818

Frankenstein (film), Universal Pictures, 1931

I, Robot, Isaac Asimov, 1950 (introduces the Three Laws of Robotics)

The Uncanny Valley (term coined by Masahiro Mori, 1970)

Amplified Body, Laser Eyes & Third Hand, Stelarc, 1985

Ear on Arm: Engineering Internet Organ, Stelarc, 2007

Digital Eye Glasses, Steve Mann, c. 1980-present

Surveillance, Sousveillance, and McVeillance, Steve Mann, 2012

Martin Heidegger

The threat to man does not come in the first instance from the potentially lethal machines and apparatus of technology. The actual threat has already affected man in his essence. The rule of enframing threatens man with the possibility that it could be denied to him to enter a more original revealing and hence to experience the call of a more primal truth.

But where danger is, grows The saving power also.

DIGITAL MEDIA: HISTORY AND FOUNDATIONS

I, RobotJANUARY 16, 2014