Connections with James Burke
Historian James Burke continues his journey through random historical connections that together have shaped our world and provide important clues to our future.
Overview
Historian James Burke continues his journey through random historical connections that together have shaped our world and provide important clues to our future.
Episodes
1. Seeing the Future
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.
2. The End of Scarcity
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?
3. In the Net
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.
Cast & Crew
James Burke
