Connections with James Burke

Connections with James Burke

Continuing First aired 09/Nov/2023 United States English 1 season(s) 6 episode(s)
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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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Season 1 · Season 1
6 episode(s) · Air date: 09/Nov/2023
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A mind-blowing romp through history builds a pathway to the present – and a breakthrough that stands to profoundly change our future.

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A mind-blowing romp through history builds a pathway to the present – and a breakthrough that stands to profoundly change our future.

S1E6
Limitless Energy
Air date: 09/Nov/2023 · Runtime: 41 min
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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?

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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?

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Designer Genes
Air date: 09/Nov/2023 · Runtime: 41 min
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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?

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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?

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None of This is Real
Air date: 09/Nov/2023 · Runtime: 40 min
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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?

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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?

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S1E3
In the Net
Air date: 09/Nov/2023 · Runtime: 47 min
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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.

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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.

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The End of Scarcity
Air date: 09/Nov/2023 · Runtime: 47 min
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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?

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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?

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Seeing the Future
Air date: 09/Nov/2023 · Runtime: 45 min
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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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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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