Connections with James Burke
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S1 E1 - Seeing the Future
November 9, 202346minJames 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.Free trial of Curiosity Stream, rent, or buyS1 E2 - The End of Scarcity
November 9, 202347minJames 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?Free trial of Curiosity Stream, rent, or buyS1 E3 - In the Net
November 9, 202348minJames 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.Free trial of Curiosity Stream, rent, or buyS1 E4 - None of This is Real
November 9, 202340minDog 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?Free trial of Curiosity Stream, rent, or buyS1 E5 - Designer Genes
November 9, 202341minA 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?Free trial of Curiosity Stream, rent, or buyS1 E6 - Limitless Energy
November 9, 202342minHow 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?Free trial of Curiosity Stream, rent, or buy
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