Name: Connections with James Burke
Released: 2023-11-09T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: James Burke

TV Show · Documentary · History

James Burke goes on a journey of discovery through the interlocking threads of knowledge running through history, using state-of-the-art CGI and virtual reality to unlock the power of his extraordinary imagination.

2023 · 45m

Starring James Burke

EPISODE 1

Seeing the Future

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.
EPISODE 2

The End of Scarcity

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, molecule by molecule, for free.
EPISODE 3

In the Net

James opens a cabinet of curiosities to discover how the French Revolution, wallpaper and NORAD brought about the rise of big data; a world where humans finally merge with the internet.
EPISODE 4

None of This is Real

Dog pee, the Polaroid camera and rocket fuel lead to a future where AI is indistinguishable from human intelligence.
EPISODE 5

Designer Genes

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.
EPISODE 6

Limitless Energy

How a journey that began thousands of years ago with the Inca and the potato connects to a mad scientist in a castle and German beer; the brink of a future with clean, limitless energy.