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But according to historians, ancient robots were more than just myths.
Well, in ancient Rome, impenetrability was the criterion of masculinity.
So, back in the ancient times.
I'm an anthropologist at the Rand Corporation, and while many anthropologists study ancient cultures, I focus on modern day cultures and how we're adapting to all of this change happening in the world.
Following an ancient war with robots, humanity has forbidden the construction of any machine “in the likeness of a human mind.”
Paul’s mother Jessica, is a member of the Bene Gesserit, an ancient cult of spice-assisted psychics.
Similarly ancient are the Mentats— human computers capable of processing incredible amounts of data.
Because yeasts will ferment basically any plant sugars, ancient peoples made alcohol from whatever crops and plants grew where they lived.
These organisms are small, abundant, ancient, and they are critical to sustaining our population and our planet.
I talked to fisherwomen in coastal Vietnam, justice fighters in Fiji, new generations of leaders in the ancient cultures of the Torres Straits.
So as we reframe the problem in a more truthful way and we restructure our social systems in a more just way, all that will be left is for us to reindigenize ourselves and to conjure a power of the most ancient kind.
We have a system that is really ancient, and really there for physical danger.
We have basically at least two systems here, and they both are very ancient.
Our pleasures are really ancient.
[The incredible diversity of ancient life, Dinosaurs, Paleontology] It's a very accurate meme; I didn't even make this one.
Our tadpole-like ancestors flitted along ancient coastlines, while their eel-like relatives with gnashing throat teeth swam above the ice-cream cone corals of the first reefs, dodging school-bus-sized krakens and hungry sea scorpions.
Predatory deer dogs frolicked along ancient rivers, while their relatives returned to the ocean to become the first otter-like whales.
Found in graves, bogs, and sites of ancient settlements, many of these objects are inscribed with messages in Old Norse written in runic letters.
A nice one, because it can happen lots of little ways in lots of little places, is by copying the ancient Amazon Indians who made good agricultural soil by pyrolizing, smoldering, plant waste, and biochar fixes large quantities of carbon while it's improving the soil.
The last thing Ethic used the world machine to create was a robot that would protect the ancient device from the forces of ignorance by enclosing it in a giant maze.
Tragic art, as it developed in the theaters of ancient Greece, in the fifth century B.C., was essentially an art form devoted to tracing how people fail, and also according them a level of sympathy, which ordinary life would not necessarily accord them.
4,300 years ago in ancient Sumer, the most powerful person in the city of Ur was banished to wander the vast desert.
And with the People's Building, he saw an architecture that could bridge the gap between the ancient wisdom of China and the progressive future of China.
We live in places like this as if they're the most natural things in the world, forgetting that because we're animals and that we need to eat, we're actually as dependent on the natural world as our ancient ancestors were.
Well, to answer the slightly easier question first, about 10,000 years ago, I would say, is the beginning of this process in the ancient Near East, known as the Fertile Crescent.
Because it was discovery of grain by our ancient ancestors for the first time that produced a food source that was large enough and stable enough to support permanent settlements.
And in fact, that's true of every ancient city.
This is the only way it was possible to do this in the ancient world, because it was very difficult to transport food over roads, which were rough.
So I've come up with an alternative, which is Sitopia, from the ancient Greek, "sitos" for food, and "topos" for place.
There's an ancient parable about a farmer who lost his horse.
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