Incredible strength... Superior intelligence... And even the ability to reproduce. In the 21st century, robots are being programmed to do everything from performing surgery on humans--to exploring other planets. And humanoid robots are rapidly reaching a level of sophistication that was thought to exist only in science fiction. But what are the implications of creating robots that are increasingly intelligent and independent? Is the obsession with creating counterfeit humans really pointing the way to mankind's future... or to its past? Greek stories dating to 2000 B.C. tell of the god Hephaestus creating robots to build weapons, as well as the bronze giant Talos. In Egypt, the Pyramid Texts say that the god Osiris was dismembered, then reassembled and brought back to life just like a machine. If sophisticated robots really did exist in the ancient world--what function did they serve? Who built them? And what happened to them?
Name | Type | Role | |
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Kaylan Eggert | Writer | ||
Kevin Burns | Writer | ||
Max Thompson | Writer | ||
Tammy Caplan | Producer | Co-Producer | |
Brian Garson | Producer | Co-Producer | |
Kristina Djokic | Producer | Supervising Producer | |
William Henry | Guest Star | Self - Author, Egypt: The Greatest Show on Earth | |
Nick Redfern | Guest Star | Self - Author, Close Encounters of the Fatal Kind | |
Steve Fuller | Guest Star | Self - Author, Humanity 2.0: What it Means to be Human | |
David Childress | Guest Star | Self - Author, Technology of the Gods | |
Linda Moulton Howe | Guest Star | Self - Investigative Journalist, Earthfiles | |
Nick Pope | Guest Star | Self - U.K. Ministry of Defense (1985-2006) | |
David Wilcock | Guest Star | Self - Author, The Synchronicity Key | |
Hiroshi Ishiguro | Guest Star | Self - Director, Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories, ATR | |
Mark Dice | Guest Star | Self - Author, Big Brother: The Orwellian Nightmare Come True | |
Giorgio A. Tsoukalos | Guest Star | Self - Publisher, Legendary Times Magazine | |
Nic Radford | Guest Star | Self - Chief Technology Officer, Houston Mechatronics, Inc. | |
Takashi Minato | Guest Star | Self - Researcher, Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratories, ATR | |
Jonathan Young | Guest Star | Self - Founding Curator, Joseph Campbell Archives | |
Richard 'Ric' Rader | Guest Star | Self - Author, Theology and Existentialism in Aeschylus | |
Luis Sentis | Guest Star | Self - Professor of Robotics and Mechanical Engineering, U.T. Austin | |
Susan E. Leventhal | Executive Producer | for HISTORY | |
Kim Sheerin | Executive Producer | ||
David Silver | Executive Producer | ||
Max Thompson | Executive Producer | ||
Kevin Burns | Executive Producer |