landmarks

This chronology deals with landmarks in thinking about robots.

Context is provided by the broader media, business and technology timeline.

     the steam age

1818 Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

1893 Ambrose Bierce's Moxon's Master

     pulp

1921 Karel Capek's R.U.R

1926 Fritz Lang's Metropolis

1927 Raymond Bernard's The Chess Player

1930 Miles Breuer's Paradise & Iron

1931 James Whale's Frankenstein

     thinking machines

1934 J. Storer Clouston's Button Brains

1934 Harl Vincent's Rex

1940 Isaac Asimov's Robbie

1941 Asimov's Reason

1942 Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics in Runaround

1944 Theodore Sturgeon's Killdozer

1946 Asimov's Evidence

1947 Asimov's Little Lost Robot

1947 Jack Williamson's With Folded Hands

1948 Norbert Wiener's Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal

     a mirror of the apocalypse?

1950 Asimov's The Evitable Conflict

1950 Clifford Simak's Skirmish

1951 The Day the Earth Stood Still

1951 Asimov's Satisfaction Guaranteed

1952 Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano

1953 Philip K Dick's Second Variety and Imposter

1955 Robert Bloch's Comfort Me, My Robot

1955 Dick's Autofac

1955 Walter Miller's The Darfsteller

1956 Asimov's The Naked Sun

1956 The Forbidden Planet

1958 The Colossus of New York

1962 Creation of the Humanoids

1964 Stanislav Lem's The Invincible

1965 Dr Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine

1968 Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey

1969 Dick's The Electric Ant

1972 Ira Levin's The Stepford Wives

1973 Michael Crichton's Westworld

     the long yawn

1973 Woody Allen's Sleeper

1974 Asimov's That Thou Art Mindful of Him

1974 John Carpenter's Dark Star

1976 Asimov's The Bicentennial Man

1977 George Lucas's Star Wars

1982 Android

1984 The Terminator

1986 Aliens

1986 Short Circuit

2001 Spielberg's AI

2004 I, Robot

2005 Robot

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