Did the ancient world, Greek and Hindu, imagine robots and technology that are coming true today? Dr. Adrienne Mayor at Stanford University, a  research scholar in classics, history and the philosophy of science, says yes. She has written a wonderful new book called Gods and Robots:  Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology and spoke in this podcast about the nature of technology, whether human use and abuse of technology and whether artificial intelligence (AI) could ever develop the conscience for mercy, or even crack a dark joke.