What do the human interactions with this early chatterbot reveal about relationships, not only between people and robots, but also between people themselves?
“It is from the beginnings of Western society that we can observe a scathing remark can go unpunished so long as it is accompanied by a joke.” On Molière, satire, and power.
"[H]uman interaction is essential, but unavoidably fails due to the tremendous barrier that language and death pose to the individual." On Beckett's Murphy.
"Maps and their textual counterparts are complex documents, fraught with information from the most basic geographical facts to complex political and cultural details." An account of Ancient Egypt across media.