Dreams, Machines and Quantum Beginnings

Before the robots and the qubits, there were three thousand years of people dreaming about thinking machines.Talos, the bronze giant who patrolled the shores of Crete. Yan Shi's mechanical man was presented to a Chinese king around 1000 BC. Al-Jazari's programmable automata at the Artuqid court. The urge to build a mind is older than most of what we call history, and it keeps coming back.This is t...