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ITEM: the two original images, as described below, each $45. I’ve written earlier in this blog about the advent of robots and human machines, and I’d like to add these two images to that thread. Both are male, which is not horribly surprising since the earliest creation of a female robot belongs to the fertile Fritz Lang, who used his creation in his extraordinary movie Metropolis in 1927. (Male robot-like creations go back fairly deeply into the 19th century; so perhaps the creation of…

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an old rusty clock with chains hanging from it's face on a yellow wall

Victorian lighthouse mechanism. Photo about grease, navigational, greasy, historic, coastal, mechanics, mechanism, gearing, obsolete, equipment, enameled, navigation - 22039001

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an industrial machine is shown in this black and white photo, while workers are working on it

Twenty years ago, you would have been the coolest kid on the block for carrying a Nokia 3310. But time flies and technological innovation accelerates along with it. Today, we live in a world ruled by touch screens, face recognition, and machine learning, so imagine what the technology was like a century ago, or two.

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