Joerg Pietschmann wrote:

Ben Laurie wrote:

Stanislaw Lem was actually Polish. And has anyone mentioned he coined the word "robot" (it's Polish for "worker").


The last one isn't correct. The originator of the word "robot"
was a czech guy named Karel Capek:
 http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/projects/actipret/robot.html

Cool! Thanks.

Cheers,

Ben.

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