The animation of this doodle shows Trurl - a genius robotic engineer and some of the (shortened) adventures he encounters while marching through the high-tech pseudo-Medieval landscape. Most of them revolve around robots, machines and technology. The grand finale is inspired by the story of the almighty machine that is able to produce everything as long as it's starts with a letter 'n'. So we see Trulr wishing for a needle followed by a bowl of noodles. Then his dear friend Klapaucius, a brilliant robomechanic himself, tells the machine to produce nothing, which ends up as you would imagine.
I was lucky to read Bajki Robotów (~Tales of the Robots), which includes part of The Cyberiad cycle, this summer holidays on a train back home from Germany. And it was a nice touch from Google to remind me about it today.
I would really recommend reading Lem's books to anyone that is even slightly interested in artificial intelligence and the philosophy that follows.
Still, lets not forget:
Dopóki nie skorzystałem z Internetu, nie wiedziałem, że na świecie jest tylu idiotów.
(I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet).
Stanisław Lem
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