Showing posts with label machina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label machina. Show all posts

Monday, March 30, 2009

MACHINA!

Machina is Latin for machine. In search of an all consuming term for Robots, cyborgs, androids, robotic exoskeletons and such, I stumbled across this word in Humanities class when we were talking about plays. I gleaned this from the term "Deus Ex Machina" aka"the God in the machine". This was a plot device used in ancient Greece and is still sometimes used today. Basically in these ancient Greek plays, the plot and tension would climb until only the intervention of a God could resolve the situation. So back to my original tread: I have adopted machina to refer to anything robotic, robot like, cybernetic etc. It's just easier to group them all together rather than saying "look at the cyborg/robot/android/Ironman over there." You still can use the other terms, but I think that it's more convenient and a better way to refer to a group of metal and flesh beings. So from now on when ever I refer to machina, you know what I mean. (It also sounds cooler too.)

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