Episode 77 |Mythic Automata |Pondering similarities between Pandora and Skynet

“It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.” ― Pierre-Simon Laplace As promised in the show sharing link to this amazing book  Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology : Adreinne Mayor https://amzn.to/2LdG4LV  Listen , learn and enjoy !