James Burke : Connections, Episode 1, "The Trigger Effect", 3 of 5 (CC)

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Episode 1 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 connections automatically. See http://k-web.org.

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[Monkor001]

I'll take a farm by force and people to work it but I'll work it as well, people will need to work together and if you gotta use force to say were all gonna help or were all gonna die then that seems workable in an apocalypse

[JamesBurkeWeb]

What do you mean "by force"?

You, against over 100 fully-armed, well-fed rugged men that know the territory, know how to use firearms, know how to develop, hide, time or trigger powerful explosives; you will (after walking some 200 miles with barely a drop of water to drink) just take that farm "by force"?

Force of what?

You aren't a super commando or something are you? Or are you the leader of some kind of radical militant faction?

Please do tell. Sounds interesting!

[tex1965able]

if you got the farm by the force there will be more like you,later you have to defend your self and work at the same time.need a tribe for defence ,production ,gathering food and goods

[JamesBurkeWeb]

Nothin' to it!

Well, unless you've ever had any experience running a community (like say, a child's birthday party) you will rapidly come to the realization that forming alliances and bringing everyone into agreement over some issue (ie. "who peed in the lemonade") will often evolve into a daunting if not life-threatening occupation.

But ok. Form tribes, elect a security council, set up laws, taxation, division of labor etc. and yes, you *might not* get slain before the grain runs out.

- JBW

[BugsWisely]

@khataroo

I misspelled hypocrisy... I musta been havin' a bad day. I liked Connections 3 episode 6 where he talks of Alfred Wallace being the true author of "Origin of Species."

[khataroo]

@BugsWisely Yep, hysteria breeds hysteria.

[khataroo]

Every man for himself

[khataroo]

So the moral to the story is....watch out always for that "Technology Trap."

[thors45a]

Hell, farmers don't even plow anymore. Agriculture has totally changed since this was made.

[BugsWisely]

A new fundamental way of life. Hyper hypocracy.

[sheriwhispers]

This guy gives me a headache...

[EJ160E]

keep a gun handy to kill all the looting monkey niggers!

[xxxandijjj]

without the power how we could see you and have the great idea from you jackass

[Rickyrab]

I'm not so suree it was the plow that started it all. Perhaps it was the spear. Perhaps it was man learning how to walk on two feet. But technology development started long before agriculture. Humankind had to learn how to hunt, how to fish, and how to herd animals, and farming probably came after that.