Mark O'Connell's To Be a Machine asked whether technology is a means to eternal life. Now, a livestreamed version starring Jack Gleeson gives tech a new dimension in theatre Humans and robots were first introduced to each other in a theatre. Karel ÄŒapek's play RUR, which premiered in Prague in 1921, contained the first use of the term "robot", and featured uncannily human-looking "artificial people". So Mark O'Con…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54PM on September 23, 2020