The threat of jobs being replaced by new tools and technologies is nothing new, and the fears of humans being replaced or subjugated have a very rich literary tradition. In Frankenstein (published in the 1810s), Victor Frankenstein (who was the creator of The Monster, which was never named) ponders The Monster’s request for a female companion but concludes, “A race of devils would be propagated upon Earth who might make the very existence of the species of man a condition precarious and full of terror.” The 1920s play Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (RUR), which coined the phrase robot, features hybrid human-machine robots taking human factory jobs.