The Paranormal Intersection: TPI: February 2024

Mary_Shelley lived to the age of 53, but had tremendous insight by speculating about a rebuilt & reanimated humanoid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein#Frankenstein_and_the_Monster Perhaps one of the best early concepts of a cybernetic humanoid.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/sep/26/frankenstein-hour-creation-identified-astronomers

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/13/frankenstein-at-200-why-hasnt-mary-shelley-been-given-the-respect-she-deserves-?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstein_Castle#Legends_and_myths

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Byron#Switzerland_and_the_Shelleys

Of course Shelley's animated monstrous creature wasn't quite a cybernetic entity. That would require advanced computers, robotic parts or bionics & cybernetics.

However, if Ada_Lovelace had lived a few more decades, she might have realized that advanced digital devices could lead to AI & bionics, etc. Ada died in 1852 at almost 37.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace#Insight_into_potential_of_computing_devices

About a century after the death of Mary Shelley and Ada Lovelace, things started to take off in the 1950s. https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1950

https://historictech.com/the-state-of-artificial-intelligence-in-the-1950s

https://darkworldsquarterly.gwthomas.org/robots-in-the-1950s-golden-age

https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/history-artificial-intelligence/

https://isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?263915

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_featuring_Frankenstein's_monster