Untold Origin -- A Comic Book History Podcast
Untold Origin is a podcast that explores comic books through the lens of American history. Hosted by a historian and lifelong comic book fan, each episode traces how the funny books we read reflect the real world conflicts, triumphs, philosophies, and flavor of the real world we inhabit. From Cold War fears to Civil Rights debates, from psychedelic trips to board room villains, we reveal historical forces that shape the stories, and heroes, that shaped us.
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Untold Origin -- A Comic Book History Podcast
Even an Android Can Cry: Vision, Jarvis, and the Ghost in the Machine
Not all artificial intelligences found in comic books are villains. In this follow-up to last week's episode, we'll explore those artificial creations that sought to assist humanity. Those characters and assistants that strove to aid not only in humanity's goals, but in its betterment. From characters like Vision and Machine Man to the more personalized interfaces like Jarvis and Skeets, we will focus on the promise of A.I., always interwoven with the very anxieties it tends to cause.
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Music sourced:
Track: The Last Fight by MelancholicBird
Track: Feeling of the End by Anton Kramar
Track: Night City by CloudSystem
Track: Timelapse by Abstract_Solar
Track: Arasaka Tower by AHOAMI
Track: Last Warrior by VensAdams
Media sourced:
Justice League Unlimited
Avengers: Age of Ultron
Iron Man
Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes
Man & Computer, IBM 1965
"The Thinking Machine" from MIT and CBS
Celebrating the Cell Phone, CNN
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