James Burke
Connections (1978)
History as a chain reaction. Connections offers an alternative view of change, one that pushes back against the neat, linear story of progress. Nothing else I’ve watched has shaped how I think about technology as much as this.
Beautifully made. Season 01 had an enormous production budget. The entire three seasons are available for free at Web Archive or YouTube. 10/10.
James Burke, in one episode, will go from Water Mills, to Looms, to the Personal Computer in a perfectly knit narrative.
Connections by James Burke (Seasons 1-3) : James Burke (BBC) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Connections explores an Alternative View of Change that rejects the conventional linear and teleological view of historical progress. Burke contends that…
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