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

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  • Funny though, I ...

    Funny though, I wonder if his comments here would have more impact on viewers in the UK than those in North America. While certainly not in NYC, there are lots of "live off the land" types in America that I'd say are pretty well equipped to deal with life without electricity!

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  • Um..... does anyone ...

    Um..... does anyone know of any Amish farming lessons on youtube???

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  • the ORIGINAL ...

    the ORIGINAL connections was the best of them all..

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  • Isn't he though? ...

    Isn't he though? Too bad he seems to have gone into seclusion lately; haven't heard a thing about any up coming public interviews or new projects, book signings or whatever. Maybe I'm just not looking hard enough. Could always be that ;)

    If anyone hears of anything coming up, please let me know. Maybe a few of us around here can get a question or 2 in in an interview (*if* we knew where and when!)

    - JBW

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  • James Burke is so ...

    James Burke is so great!!
    Thanks for uploading this.

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