Humbled by your sight

How the Greeks predicted modern technology trends
Mark Bridge, Technology Correspondent
October 9 2018, 12:01am, The Times

Talos is brought to life in the 1963 film Jason and the Argonauts
It is a place where megalomaniac leaders with an insatiable appetite for knowledge develop artificial intelligence and robots that pose grave dangers to humanity.
Silicon Valley? No, Greek mythology — which directly foresaw modern technology trends, including AI, humanoid robots, driverless cars and genetic engineering, according to a new book.

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Adrienne Mayor, a historian at Stanford University, believes that the ancients anticipated many of the dilemmas we are grappling with today and tech bosses should learn from their wisdom.
She cites the “bronze killer-robot” Talos, who guarded the island of Crete, and the alluring Pandora, whom she describes as a Blade Runner-style “replicant”, as two of the most significant automatons constructed by Hephaestus, the god of metalworking and invention. Both were deliberately deployed to…