James Burke : Connections, Episode 3, "Distant Voices", 1 of 5 (CC)

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Episode 3 of James Burke's most well-known series "Connections" which explores the surprising and unexpected ways that our modern technological world came into existence. Each episode investigates the background of usually one particular modern invention and how it came into being. These explorations are an attempt to locate the "connections" between various historical figures who seemingly had nothing to do with each other in their own times, however once connected, these same figures combined to produce some of the most profound impacts on our modern day world; in a "1+1=3" type of way.

It is this type of investigation that is the main idea behind the Knowledge Web project; whereby sophisticated software is used to attempt to discover these subtle interconnections automatically. See http://k-web.org.

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[CHANNELOMD]

It shows you that one mistake can really have dreadfull outcome

[JamesBurkeWeb]

Kinda like not buying Microsoft when it was at $2.50 ... That was a *hell* of a mistake!

Well, off to cook my last piece of chicken liver and see if I can scrape together enough hidden bits of uncooked rice - from behind the radiators naturally (and I know they're there the little bastards, taunting me as usual) - for a tasty, even if unsalted, side order! Yum.

- JBW

[CHANNELOMD]

Yep and I bet I will kick myself for missing those same opportunites in todays market!

[JamesBurkeWeb]

You will my friend. you will...

[fixedd]

Thanks for sharing these... they're great,

[moxie96]

@pazomotti mine too, I was just amazed by him at a young age at about 3 years old, I 'may have not gotten the full scope of what he was saying but it held my attention for the whole hour and many episodes.

[pazomotti]

used to be my favorite show as a kid

[Teletubbiezzz]

LOL MEDIEVAL TAPESTRY YTMND LOL!!!

[guyincocknito]

Mr. Burke! You are really here?!

Amazing stuff btw its is simply amazing!

[oker59]

@akleinhesselink

That's when I first watched these as well. I don't remember the years. But, at that time, cable was cable and regular t.v. was regular politically correct t.v. You could watch a show like this and not worry about the nudity! Soon, cable became regular t.v. and you couldn't really show it any more(americans can't be mature about it; her body isn't worth looking at anyways!).

[MsTexasOne]

@akleinhesselink amen to that akle.  I was a teen in high school when this aired I loved this show.

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[iDentarthurdent]

Love this Series!

[ChorltonBrook]

Virtually free electricity?