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This document discusses the evolution of the concept of machines in the 20th century through the influence of three key figures: writer Karel Čapek, mathematician Alan Turing, and mathematician John von Neumann. It summarizes that Čapek introduced the word "robot" in his 1920 play R.U.R. to depict artificially created workers, influencing the discourse around human-machine interaction. It describes how Turing conceptualized an abstract "Turing machine" in 1936 to prove that some mathematical problems cannot

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