Episode · a16z Podcast · 2018-11-19
Books mentioned on a16z Podcast: Ancient Dreams of Technology, Gods & Robots
with Adrienne Mayor (@amayor) and Hanne Tidnam (@omnivorousread) Is it possible that ancient Greeks and Romans dreamed of technological innovations like robots and artificial intelligence millennia before those technologies became realities?
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Gods and Robots
“I'm Hanna and today I'm here with Adrienne Mayor, historian of science and author of the just-released book Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology.”
Passing The Poison King
“And her previous work has been on the science buried in ancient legends, Native American legends about dinosaur fossils, legends about ancient Amazonian women warriors, to King Mithradates, the Poison King, for which she was a National Book Award finalist.”