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The History of Ideas Podcast
with David Runciman

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Thinking About Thinking Machines: Metropolis

For the first episode in our new series on the history of thinking about thinking machines, David talks to philosopher Shannon Vallor about Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927). The last great silent film is the most futuristic: a vision of robots and artificial life, it is also about where the human heart fits into an increasingly mechanised world. Is it prophetic? Is it monstrous? And who are the winners and losers when war is declared on the machines?

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Next time: Isaac Asimov’s ‘Franchise’ 



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22 September 2024

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