The Best Episodes of Connections with James Burke

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#1 - Designer Genes
S1:E511/9/2023
A cup of coffee in the 18th century takes James to the pioneering woman who discovered the structure of DNA, and a future with genetically engineered people. Will we want to be Super-Human?
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8.7/10(16 votes)
#2 - Seeing the Future
S1:E111/9/2023
James connects the dots between Napoleon’s toothpick and the Nielsen TV ratings to see how scientists have built the quantum computer – a data-processing machine so powerful that it can predict the future.
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8.4/10(10 votes)
#3 - In the Net
S1:E311/9/2023
James opens a cabinet of curiosities to discover how the French Revolution, wallpaper, and NORAD brought about the rise of big data – and a world where humans finally merge with the internet.
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#4 - None of This is Real
S1:E411/9/2023
Dog pee, the Polaroid camera, and rocket fuel lead us to a future where AI is indistinguishable from human intelligence. If we can’t tell machines and people apart, what will that mean for humanity?
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8.2/10(13 votes)
#5 - The End of Scarcity
S1:E211/9/2023
James jumps in the sensory deprivation tank with a man who took LSD with dolphins to discover how syphilis in the French aristocracy kicked off a journey to the nanofabricator–a machine that can build anything you wish for, molecule by molecule, for free. What will that mean for the value of things?
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#6 - Limitless Energy
S1:E611/9/2023
How did a journey that began thousands of years ago with the Inca and the potato, connect to a mad scientist in a castle, and German beer, then bring us to the brink of a future with clean, limitless energy? And what will that future mean for humanity?
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