James Burke : Connections, Episode 10, "Yesterday, Tomorrow and You", 2 of 5 (CC)

[DidiHylobates]

"How do you think you screw a knight in armor?" Hilarious!

[Craigthepope]

I did not realize this was made in 1978, I guess that explains the leisure suit.

[Sviolinist]

Burke is truly a master of history. I have a degree in history. This guy makes me very proud of that. I'm also a scientist, and Burke is very good with science.

[stevedekorte]

Religion also destroyed most of the knowledge of the ancient world and sent us into a 1000 years of darkness when the christians burned down the great libraries.

[billyensign]

Than you very much.

For those of us who want to change the world we need to do as you recommend, earn a PHD availing ourselves to the latest technology and philosophy.

I wish the leaders of the world would be mandated to study these connections and stop engineering us into Babbitsville. They have the power to change the world with very powerful sciences and instead they micromanage the minutia.

We are awash in carbon and old technology.

I wish I had a college degree let alone a PHD.

[claudiasandovalgomez]

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[yolo22]

james burke is awesome! he makes history interesting. he personalizes it.

[1stclickisthehardest]

"The next time your wife asks you to fix a plug" oh dear...

still a great show, just dated a bit...

[JamesBMotion]

Dated is not necessarily a bad thing. Particularly in this case since technological progress and "the future" are the subjects of the series, in particular the *speed* at which things change.

That it is dated points directly to (or amplifies) the issues raised in the program.

- JBW

[Grak70]

"Religion gave us clockwork." Hmm, not reeeeeally. People needing to get up at weird hours gave us clockwork along with some human ingenuity. If we'd had some other wacky reason to get up at 5am, THAT would have "given" us clockwork.

As a shorthand, sure. But I think what he means is: "religion gave us a reason to give ourselves clockwork." Hate to be snarky about it, but it's an association fallacy.

A small complaint. :-)

[JamesBurkeWeb]

Ya, well the reason (purportedly) to get up at the right time was a religious one, so what he means is that if it weren't for religion then clocks would not have been invented *at that time* (we can assume eventually they would have been invented for some other reason).

I don't see it as misleading really. It's about as misleading as saying "war" gave us large, efficient aircraft able to carry substantial cargo over a great distance. True. Not necessarily true, but it just happened that way.

[painxtreme]

@Grak70 A useless semantic point.

[Grak70]

@painxtreme A useless comment with no content.

[painxtreme]

@Grak70 You meant A useless comment with a word you had to look up.