James Burke : Connections, Episode 3, "Distant Voices", 5 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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[ripedecomp]

....My betamax copies of both series were destroyed by fire...

but not by the time my son was fully impressed by their sheer

witt and knowlegde. Everyone i explain these shows to always comes back,thanking me.

BOFFO James !!! Thank you for the post!!!

[JamesBurkeWeb]

You're very welcome.

Also, just so you know, I am not actually James Burke. I used to have a channel called JamesBurkeFan and I closed it for various ... too long to go into ... reasons. I couldn't recreate it with that name so I changed Fan to Web and I think by choosing that name I've confused a lot of people into thinking that I am in fact Mr. Burke.

Rest assured, Mr. Burke is no "YouTuber" ;) but I have no doubt he's aware of this channel and his growing influence because of it.

- JBW

[Zoetroper]

The more he rubbed his glass balls, the weirder they got, they became...strangely...attractiv­e. in 1709 he told somebody... so they all started doing it. Around 1720 Steven Grey was rubbing his tube, to make it attractive... why not?

[JamesBurkeWeb]

Haha... I guess if interpreted a certain way there's something... well, I best not go on.

- JBW

[AgentJayZ]

When I watched these in the eighties, I never noticed the humorous sexual references.

Now they jump out at me.

Is it the show, or is it me?

This was a truly great series!

[JamesBurkeWeb]

It's the show ;)

Or you, depending on how you look at it!

- JBW

[URProductions]

James Burke not a YouTuber!? But it's such an innovative technology!

[edwinmontero]

Thanks very much for upload these videos, I started to learn English a long time ago with The Beatles songs, and now I am trying to improve it with this serie, I have found extranges words that I never heard before, But It all right. Thanks Mr. Burke for such masterfull demostration of knowlege.

[mdiem]

What a freaky episode!

[niqhtt]

Someone rubs my balls they also become strangely attractive

[MrLotharofhillpeople]

Trust the Germans to think of 'experiments' involving small, suspended boys.

[spencnaz]

Excellent series. Really brings to the fore Ecclesiastes 1:9 'there is nothing new under the sun", only recombinations of existing ideas to come up with different solutions to problems. Never get tired of watching these programs.

[aikigeorge3]

this show informed the way I think back in the day when I was learning to think....

I will always be grateful to Proffessor Burke.

[rockoqatsi]

2:33 WTF?!

[jaymoe67]

Oh, the experiments perfomed on women and young boys by cathiloc monks in the name of discovery in the middle ages could not be compressed into even a single seasons seires of shows on BBC, much less a single episode. Thanks for trying though.

[lensman1781]

1:53

[nedski2003]

thank you so much for posting these episodes on youtube. your series remain one of the most important influences of my life. probably got me started on my career in IT and (dare i still use the term?) "knowledge management." you were the pioneer, sir.