Christopher Nolan’s 2026 film The Odyssey puts a 21st-century spin on Homer’s epic tale.Credit: Melinda Sue Gordon/Universal Pictures/Shutterstock In He OdysseyHomer records the first imaginings of autonomous ships guided by what appears to modern readers to be remarkably artificial intelligence. The ships of the Phaeacians, which carry Odysseus home to Ithaca, “know every city, every
