Gods and robots [electronic resource]: myths, machines, and ancient dreams of technology /
Mayor, Adrienne, 1946-
Gods and robots [electronic resource]: myths, machines, and ancient dreams of technology / Myths, machines, and ancient dreams of technology Adrienne Mayor. - 1 digital resource (xvi, 275 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-263) and index.
Introduction: made, not born -- The robot and the witch: Talos and Medea -- Medea's cauldron of rejuvenation -- The quest for immortality and eternal youth -- Beyond nature: enhanced powers borrowed from gods and animals -- Daedalus and the living statues -- Pygmalion's living doll and Prometheus's first humans -- Hephaestus: divine devices and automata -- Pandora: beautiful, artificial, evil -- Between myth and history: real automata and lifelike artifices in the ancient world -- Epilogue. Awe, dread, hope: deep learning and ancient stories.
Traces the story of how ancient cultures envisioned artificial life, automata, self-moving devices and human enhancements, sharing insights into how the mythologies of the past related to and shaped ancient machine innovations.
9780691183510 0691183511
2018938106
GBB8G2603 bnb
019039484 Uk
Robotics--History.
Robots--Mythology.
Science, Ancient.
Science and civilization.
Technology--Religious aspects.
Inventions--History.
Technology and civilization.
Artificial intelligence--History.
Artificial intelligence--Social aspects.
Technology--History.--Rome
Technology--History.
Technology--History.--Greece
Technology--Religious aspects.
Technology and civilization.
Technology.
Science and civilization.
Inventions.
Artificial intelligence--Social aspects.
Artificial intelligence.
Science, Ancient.
Robotics.
Rome (Empire)
Greece.
Nonfiction.
History.
BL313 / .M446 2018
930 609/.01 629.892
Gods and robots [electronic resource]: myths, machines, and ancient dreams of technology / Myths, machines, and ancient dreams of technology Adrienne Mayor. - 1 digital resource (xvi, 275 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-263) and index.
Introduction: made, not born -- The robot and the witch: Talos and Medea -- Medea's cauldron of rejuvenation -- The quest for immortality and eternal youth -- Beyond nature: enhanced powers borrowed from gods and animals -- Daedalus and the living statues -- Pygmalion's living doll and Prometheus's first humans -- Hephaestus: divine devices and automata -- Pandora: beautiful, artificial, evil -- Between myth and history: real automata and lifelike artifices in the ancient world -- Epilogue. Awe, dread, hope: deep learning and ancient stories.
Traces the story of how ancient cultures envisioned artificial life, automata, self-moving devices and human enhancements, sharing insights into how the mythologies of the past related to and shaped ancient machine innovations.
9780691183510 0691183511
2018938106
GBB8G2603 bnb
019039484 Uk
Robotics--History.
Robots--Mythology.
Science, Ancient.
Science and civilization.
Technology--Religious aspects.
Inventions--History.
Technology and civilization.
Artificial intelligence--History.
Artificial intelligence--Social aspects.
Technology--History.--Rome
Technology--History.
Technology--History.--Greece
Technology--Religious aspects.
Technology and civilization.
Technology.
Science and civilization.
Inventions.
Artificial intelligence--Social aspects.
Artificial intelligence.
Science, Ancient.
Robotics.
Rome (Empire)
Greece.
Nonfiction.
History.
BL313 / .M446 2018
930 609/.01 629.892