The riddle of the robots

Journal of International Commercial Law and Technology

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 197-206

  Bing, Jon ^a  

^a NONE   (Norway)

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EID: 84863163482     PISSN: 19018401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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1. A written version of an invited talk to 'IRIS-Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposium' at the Universität Salzburg, introducing the parallel session "Science Fiction and AI". There have been published versions of this in Norwegian, for instance "Dobbetgjengere: Om maskinmennesker og menneskemaskinger i fantastisk litteratur", Jon Bing Landskap med tegn, Pax, Oslo 1998:89-106. This was also published in Yulex 2004. I want to thank Associate Professor Dr Erich Schweighofer University of Vienna, Faculty of Law, Research Center for Computers and Law for giving me the opportunity to develop this English version.
2. The photograph is taken by one of the students, Viggo Elster, and has not been authorised by the Art Institute.
3. http://capek.misto.cz/english/robot.html.
4. I have with Tor Åge Bringsværd edited a science fiction anthology with stories about robots, Jeg-en maskin, Gyldendal, Oslo1973.)
5. Published in Europe as Body of Glass.
6. Egon Erwin Kisch Der rasende Reporter, Aufbau Taschenbuch Verlag, Berlin 2001 (3rd edition). The original collection of essays was originally published 1925.
7. I am grateful to the Arts Institute of Chicago to have provided material on Alexandria Exter and her designs for the film.
8. Stanley Kubrick's Dr Strangelove (1964) also wears such a glove over his artificial hand as a tribute to Lang.
9. Isaac Asimov In Memory Yet Green: The Autobiography of Isaac Asimov (Doubleday, New York 1979:281).