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

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Episode 10, conclusion of James Burke's most well-known series "Connections".

With his powerful closing remarks, Mr. Burke discusses the imminent information explosion that [was] about to occur and the growing awareness by the average person that they know so little about so much. And that this lack of knowledge amounts to an ever-increasingly crippling factor towards their power to change and mould their own futures.

Mr. Burke does not offer a solution to the problem other than for people to start to realize this, and then to seek out answers by asking those in posession of such knowledge to try to help them understand more about the world in which they live.

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[Craigthepope]

Computers will probably never catch on.

[Jcolinsol]

As far as I can observe, the universe is spinning structures, we were made by those structures, and we are collectively a structure, and the things we make are part of a structure.

This thing we are on now, the internet, is just the central nervous system of an evolving structure bigger than ourselves. Passing around signals, to cells.

[chadpicard]

"Give everyone a computer and say 'help yourself'" That's basically what we've done, isn't it?

[BugsWisely]

There are people that believe it's their God given right to be condescended until the very instant they no longer want that from you. They are called women.

[BugsWisely]

Always the assumption that anyone cares who lives or dies. People do not understand their indifference let alone possess the intellect to care. What makes anyone think they are intelligent enough to care? Caring is nothing more than a fallacious figment bug in your imagination.

[AutodidacticPhd]

These ten minutes are dynamite when watched in the context of SOPA and PIPA protests.

[wanderliscious]

i love the last few minutes, such wise words. thank you very much for posting!

[SamBlob]

@smothaudio Make that 200 years or more of burning fossil fuels. Don't forget the coal of the Industrial Revolution.

[V0N32]

This guy is amazing. I'd write out a comment maxing out the character limit and some complementing his work, but I don't even know where to begin. Absolutely now words can give this guy enough praise. Just how I wish he'd come back- and that these programs would resurface on prime time TV...

[bluygs]

A good question is not 'where is science programming like this today?', it's 'where is THIS program today?' Where - with the hundreds of channels available today - are all of Burke's series, Lord Clark's 'Civilisation', Bronowski's 'Ascent of Man', Sagan's 'Cosmos', Phillip Morrison's 'Ring of Truth', Adam Curtis' BBC works...

These, I should have hoped, would continue to inspire my children's generation as they inspired me. When I became a teacher, it was programming like this which lit my way.

[victorialucas38]

Profound, thought-provoking and inspired television from one of the genre's great communicators. James Burke was one of the first faces I ever saw on TV, watching the later moon-landings as a toddler, and I've been educated, informed and entertained over the past three days watching this series. This is the kind of thing I pay my licence fee for and rarely get in return. I just want to thank you for uploading it and wish Mr Burke had been a teacher at my school! I could watch it all over again!

[madmax200769]

The irony of the power of computers demonstrated by the specimen air booking is that whilst the technology can do it, it relies on dumb, lazy and often incompetent humans to implement the consequences.

Computers don't render that "sepcial assistance" or look after those "dietary needs". We now have that technology and it is delivered by surly operatives who care little if anything about customer service. That was the factor left out of any equation about the promise of technology.