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Connections with James Burke(2023)

Name: Connections with James Burke
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2023-11-09
Rating: 4.1

November 9, 20231 Season · 6 Episodes

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Overview

Historian James Burke continues his journey through random historical connections that together have shaped our world and provide important clues to our future.

Created by James Burke

Network CuriosityStream

Seasons

Season 1

6 Episodes

2023

E01

Seeing the Future

11/9/2023·45m

James connects the dots between Napoleon’s toothpick and the Nielsen TV ratings to see how scientists have built the quantum computer – a data-processing machine so powerful that it can predict the future.

E02

The End of Scarcity

11/9/2023·47m

James jumps in the sensory deprivation tank with a man who took LSD with dolphins to discover how syphilis in the French aristocracy kicked off a journey to the nanofabricator–a machine that can build anything you wish for, molecule by molecule, for free. What will that mean for the value of things?

E03

In the Net

11/9/2023·47m

James opens a cabinet of curiosities to discover how the French Revolution, wallpaper, and NORAD brought about the rise of big data – and a world where humans finally merge with the internet.

E04

None of This is Real

11/9/2023·40m

Dog pee, the Polaroid camera, and rocket fuel lead us to a future where AI is indistinguishable from human intelligence. If we can’t tell machines and people apart, what will that mean for humanity?

E05

Designer Genes

11/9/2023·41m

A cup of coffee in the 18th century takes James to the pioneering woman who discovered the structure of DNA, and a future with genetically engineered people. Will we want to be Super-Human?

E06

Limitless Energy

11/9/2023·41m

How did a journey that began thousands of years ago with the Inca and the potato, connect to a mad scientist in a castle, and German beer, then bring us to the brink of a future with clean, limitless energy? And what will that future mean for humanity?