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Connections with James Burke

Connections with James Burke (2023)

November. 09,2023

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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.

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Connections with James Burke

2023

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

Seasons & Episode

Seasons 1 : 2023

6 Episode

Episode 1 - Seeing the Future

November. 09,2023

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.

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Episode 2 - The End of Scarcity

November. 09,2023

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?

Episode 3 - In the Net

November. 09,2023

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.

Episode 4 - None of This is Real

November. 09,2023

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?

Episode 5 - Designer Genes

November. 09,2023

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?

Episode 6 - Limitless Energy

November. 09,2023

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?

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