James Burke : Connections, Episode 7, "The Long Chain", 1 of 5 (CC)

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Episode 7 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 core idea behind the Knowledge Web project, whereby sophisticated software is being developed to attempt to discover these subtle interconnections automatically. See http://k-web.org.

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[Monkor001]

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[JamesBurkeWeb]

[three w's] [fullstop] "k-web" [fullstop] [3 letter sequence meaning "organization"] I suppose.

[JamesBurkeWeb]

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[krrrruptidsoless]

I just realized that if cargo jets somehow lost their cargo over a residential area the damage would be horrible. Your sitting at home and a container lands on you. Anyway I got to this to find out how big the actual crews were on wooden boats back in the day. Just watching a movie and realized how many people are working. In the movies there is no one sleeping. They work all the time. I know it's a movie. But how many people were actually needed to man the sails 24 7. In the day.

[JamesBurkeWeb]

I'm not sure... look up Fluyt I guess.

A quick search reveals about 10 total. But again, I'm not 100% sure.

[ancalites]

Fluytes rocked

[JamesBurkeWeb]

Hahaha... that's a good one! Must remember.

Or maybe instead "quote of the day" I should have "comment of the day" on the main channel page.

- JBW

[craigcinca]

Would have loved to hear Burke lecture. Brilliant guy and funny, perfect prescription for a stand out professor.

[JamesBMotion]

If I hear anything about any up-coming lectures / book signings etc, be sure I will post it on the main channel page.

- JBW

[maxgunn555]

did these large planes last to today? or is it just ships that are used mainly?

[oker59]

@oker59 So, I did a real quick google seach and found the quote I quoted here.

[oker59]

"Africanist scholars John Thornton(1998) and Anne C. Bailey(2005) present contrasting views of African agency and differ in their conclusions in so far as the degree to which the African populations participated in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade; however, they concur that there was African complicity with the European slave traders. African Agency"

I seem to remember a show about the blacks beingh taken from africa mentioning that it seems that the various african tribes conspired against . .

[STEFAZON500]

I have to correct james 8:52 where said that Sweden and Finland got into a war, Sweden owned Finland until 1809 when Russia took over finland. Sweden was a superpower in the north during the 16th and 17th centuries, altough there were many wars during that time in the baltic so I belive that it was an honest mistake

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[KevinByrne2]

Instead of a 747 jet, I think that a container ship is the modern version of the fluyt: it moves huge amounts of cargo quickly and with a small crew.

It even improves on the fluyt: the standardized containers allow easy and rapid loading and unloading of cargo by a small crew of stevedores, and the containers can either be loaded onto trains or be fitted with wheeled chassis so that they can be hauled by trucks.