Hatred of machines by those who are slaves. If there were, it would be reassuring

It is not easy to deprive discourses on artificial intelligence and robotics of the cultural prominence that they have gained in recent times. But it could also be recalled that in the past there were times when, more or less, the same subjects were on the agenda. The twentieth century, a century of extraordinary technical-scientific innovations and exceptional catastrophes, from the mythical sinking of the Titanic in 1912 to the hell of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, has offered us many reflections on the idea of ​​progress, on the war industry and on the “civilization of machines”. Today we are at a further acceleration of the “modernizations” between information technology and intelligent machines.