Who ever watched the BBC Connections series and didn't become a fan? We have never stopped connecting? Now the BBC is a mere shadow of itself!
@chrismcmullen43138 ай бұрын
I watched connections all the way through...twice. James Burke is the only person I've ever seen say that romans calling other europeans barbarians was highly ironic. I think the reason it had the impact on me it did is because it was so contradictory to what i had otherwise been told. He explained it so clearly that you didnt doubt the truth of it. It changed my perspective on everything and bumped my brain over into a place where doing your own thinking was not only necessary...but by now i realise is actually contrary to what the narrative makers want from you. Things have changed unbelievable quickly since then. These days people are lauded for thier deceptions and people who tell the truth are marginalised. James Burke is a brand that isn't dying...its gone extinct. Even much of science has become a lie...
@garrysekelli67768 ай бұрын
Yeah f the pedo BBC. Buncha quntz. Jimmie Saville etc. .
@pressureworks8 ай бұрын
Actually not the bbc's fault. People, especially the people who only watch tv unfortunately are, to be very blunt, quite stupid and the bbc along with other providers of television, have to cater for the majority of their audience. So at least Radio 4 and 4 Extra are convenient refuges.......for now.
@alanclark6398 ай бұрын
@@chrismcmullen4313 I'd like to see you back those last statements with some Burkian facts!
@newforestpixie52978 ай бұрын
“BBC Local Radio in the South” is a conglomerate of generic neighbouring generic stations which cover County districts which by definition aren’t ‘Local’ in size nor their editorial remit to cover “how national & world events affect our listeners” - whilst their local affairs amount to repeating headlines of regional newsrooms usually consisting of 1 County Council decision & a crime - generally a stabbing committed by a working class or homeless young man plus endless updates on rush hour traffic & roadwork traffic controls which have failed 50 miles away from the listeners. Any space is filled with “ I’m still standing “ & “ when the going gets tough “ & an interview with a national tv celebrity. The ethos of national BBC Local Radio in Southern England at least with its ‘diversity’ of white 40 year old clone presenters called Matt or Katie is an expensive luxury that serves very few taxpayers.
@banana_junior_90003 жыл бұрын
Mr. Burke is an international treasure. Absolutely brilliant and inspirational.
@pierremainstone-mitchell82908 ай бұрын
I cannot agree more!
@clawsewitz43168 ай бұрын
He destroyed his own franchise along time ago by pandering to the environmental libtards. How many of his sweeping predictions came true? Zero
@ExiledGypsy8 ай бұрын
The problem is loss on concesus.
@silentperson2337 ай бұрын
anyone know what year this lecture was given? 2020?
@colinjames24697 ай бұрын
2003. @@silentperson233
@ManInTheBigHat2 жыл бұрын
"Persuasion is a lot harder when the audience is well informed."
@jonathancarlson6127 Жыл бұрын
James Burke: Time Lord.
@newforestpixie52978 ай бұрын
I was about to ask if he has a time machine ! 😁👍
@Platos-Den8 ай бұрын
I can listen to Burke 24/7. Never a boring moment. A real treasure. A true Brit sophisticate.
@SarahMichelle777Ай бұрын
Always loved watching the old series with him. I learned so much.
@RoxanneM-3 жыл бұрын
OMG 😱!! I just found James Burke again! 🤗👏👏👏👏
@Napthalicious3 жыл бұрын
This guy is bloody brilliant. I think of Sagan, Asimov and Clarke watching him; the flawless delivery of an enlightened mind. So rare and so precious, this shit should be required viewing...
@Napthalicious3 жыл бұрын
Ooh, yeah, Stephen J Gould, too...
@Napthalicious3 жыл бұрын
And Daniel Boorstein.
@rosemarywessel12947 ай бұрын
His programs have ALWAYS been amazing. All three series of Connections are good, but I especially like the two-part "After the Warming" on climate change. Even now, about 30-35 years later, it's one of the best intros to global climate systems. It's set in 2050, looking back at what happened to Earth's systems. Part one reviews how climate affected what humans did up until the industrial revolution, then part two reviews how what humans since the industrial revolution did to the climate.
@krisclark86195 ай бұрын
Sagen was a fraud
@Rombizio2 жыл бұрын
We should have a building, school, plaza or planet or sun named after him. Pure genius. He talked about the end of the intermediaries to solve issues in 2001. And now in 2022 that is completely true.
@colinmalcolm2422 Жыл бұрын
I grew up watching Tomorrow's World, and this chap. Absolute legend. Fields ploughed, etc. 10 / 10.
@garrettosullivan88303 жыл бұрын
The greatest communicator of how applied science leads to our modern world. With Carl Sagan and David Attenborough the people who have most influenced my interests and career,
@petercasey69388 ай бұрын
You can add Jacob Bronowski to that list
@njpaddler8 ай бұрын
@@petercasey6938 yes, yes, yes !
@garrysekelli67768 ай бұрын
@@petercasey6938 who is that? Some polish bloke?
@Calligraphybooster8 ай бұрын
And Richard Dawkins!
@juanferreira59318 ай бұрын
Oh yes, just so. This man is bloody brilliant.
@rogh.1653 жыл бұрын
I attended this lecture! So cool to hear it again, 18 years later and see how things have progressed. Major James Burke fan!!
@hauskalainen3 жыл бұрын
so glad for this comment... he was joking about President Bush... he was talking about President George Bush the First, not George Bush II. We only got to laugh at George Bush II much later. Prescient or what?
@robertjennings3973 жыл бұрын
Glad to know when this was produced. I was wondering what was causing the dolts to chuckle at every thought.
@Valhalla.Studio2 жыл бұрын
What year was this lecture?
@3vimages4712 жыл бұрын
@@Valhalla.Studio 2002 .... ish.
@kiwitrainguy2 жыл бұрын
@@Valhalla.Studio October 5th, 2001
@diarmuidbyron-oconnor35633 жыл бұрын
I’ve been watching James since the early’ 70’s.A wonderful inspiring,incite full educator. He predicts all the internet issues correctly. Even ticking off the person sneezing!
@MyYTaccountName3 жыл бұрын
I just learned of James Burke from a recommended video by KZfaq. What an intelligent man and I’m so thankful that he created all of the series that he has. I’ve got hundreds of hours of his work to watch now. Thanks for the upload.
@kenchesnut44258 ай бұрын
Myself included....So easy to listen to..funny and so smart
@all20313 жыл бұрын
I have been admirer of James Burke since his TV series , The Day the Universe Changed, which I watched almost all of them. I still have TAPES of some of them.... What a brilliant man with a pleasant way of stringing sentences like a fine jeweler creating a masterpiece befitting royalty. He does it for the masses..... Thanks for posting this video....
@Laceykat663 жыл бұрын
Agreed, though for me it was Connections & The Neuron Suite. The man could make bubblegum card collecting seem like the most fascinating subject ever.
@sutonchef3 жыл бұрын
A one of kind individual
@skyrocketcoast2194 ай бұрын
As a amateur historian, James Burke changed my way of research! He opened many doors, to be sure!!
@colephelps620211 ай бұрын
For reference, this lecture took place October 5th, 2001 in Oregon. Less than a month after the September 11th terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center.
@KhasAdun19902 жыл бұрын
This was 20 years ago and I can't believe how prescient it was, predicting things I can see coming down the pipeline even from today. Amazing.
@colinmalcolm2422 Жыл бұрын
40, not 20,.
@EthelredHardrede-nz8yv8 ай бұрын
@@colinmalcolm2422 Nor 40 years for the talk. A bit less than 20.
@colinjames24697 ай бұрын
2003 @@colinmalcolm2422
@quelmec3 жыл бұрын
Such a pleasure to let that perfect English just wash over you and soak it all in! Wonderful
@jimluebke38693 жыл бұрын
1:02:23 -- THIS on the other hand, absolutely happened. Online echo chambers, computers who know exactly what to sell you. "Will it be a world of home videos and illiterate scribblings?" Yes Mr. Burke, I'm afraid it is, but happily your lecture will also be here amongst the cat videos -- Chautauqua will coexist with Vaudeville, as it ever has.
@realSammyPasta3 жыл бұрын
James Burke is such a great science historian, philosopher, intellectual and if these don't work out for him, a stand up comedian
@davidgifford81123 жыл бұрын
Burke is so polished, compelling story telling interspersed with crowd pleasing comic timing, with that reassured voice of authority. Like his audience, I’m held in the spell of his narrative. Only after the end do you wonder on the other multiple stories of intersecting technological innovations that led from flint to Facebook.
@jimmycricket73852 жыл бұрын
Facebook doesn't depend on technological innovation. It depends on common and crude prurience. After all, its original use was to rank how ''hot'' college students were.
@LilyWasHereMB9 ай бұрын
Some 22 years later, Burke's comments give context to and explain so much of what's going on today.
@delavalmilker2 жыл бұрын
The incredible amount of information in this 90 minute lecture/question session---it's like the full 12 course first class meal on the Titanic. Compared to 95% of the other "informational" videos on KZfaq. Which are more like a McDonalds hamburger.
@robertforrester5783 жыл бұрын
His career is summed up as this . . . .'Just plain old good work'. Thanks from Philadelphia.
@markfortin35024 жыл бұрын
At the one hour point of the lecture, Burke rattles me with the questions that haunt me from my own reductionist box (as it were). What will happen...as he is speaking circa 2000...when we all star in our virtual reality paradises? When we all read and listen to only that which we want to see and hear? What happens to our culture when we all mix and mingle "distant learning" style? I realize these are somewhat common questions we grapple with, but Burke has carried us along in this lecture to this very point and left us both excited for and afraid of the future...and in some ways his lecture's future is now.
@Achrononmaster3 жыл бұрын
You are inventing fictional problems. If humans like digital isolation, then such advances enabling digital isolation will be terrific, for those folks. If people do not like being more & more digital, then provided governments do not force us to be isolated individual islands we will not ever need or organize ourselves to be isolated and digital. There will always be isolationist libertarians, but many more collectivist socially minded folks, and there need be no competition for cultural supremacy between us, civilization has shown a capacity to tolerate diversity. If virtual reality really is a paradise, then getting VR will be heaven for those who want it. But if you ignore the social dimension you will not have it for long, some other poor sod has to still run the factories to make the computer chips and whathaveyou, to run your VR servers, at least until all _that_ can also be machine automated. When all the drudgery is automatized then it will still be a society. You cannot easily breed out the desire of most for human contact. All you do is free up people to do much more creative things. There is no downside to that. If you can breed out us all the desire for human contact, then fine, no need for human contact, but then you are so far ahead in the future you are in fantasy land.
@Bacpakin3 жыл бұрын
Read ' Ferinheit 451 ' by Roddenberry to get a clue.
@Bacpakin3 жыл бұрын
Read 'Alone Together'. Yes, we are all very much "digitally typical". Not a choice anymore.
@commentingisawasteoftime71953 жыл бұрын
@@Bacpakin Fahrenheit 451 by *Ray Bradbury
@matthewscott71983 жыл бұрын
Just as his original "Connections" series asked the question "what will happen when being in debt, all the time, is the normal way to live?" In the 70's, when that aired, the concept of students graduating with $100k or more in debt, or of insured people going bankrupt from medical debt in a country that considers itself the global leader in everything, was beyond comprehension. Yet, here we are.
@egironyt3 жыл бұрын
When I saw for first time Connections with the Trigger Effect it was a glorious night that introduced me to be more aware of the effects of Engineering and Society. The Trigger Effect still makes me resonate with curiosity about the ever changing world. James Burke is a social scientific genius. He opened the path for others after to create intelligent and entertaining scientific and engineering TV shows. Cosmos 1980 with Carl Sagan, Cosmos 2020 with Neil deGrasse Tyson, Congratulations 🎉
@LiveArtPresents3 жыл бұрын
"People are what they are because of what they don't know." James Burke
@ragereset27952 жыл бұрын
Oh man, I’m hanging on to that one.
@waggishsagacity79472 жыл бұрын
What can one say about James Burke? Two phrases: (1) Unbelievably brilliant; and (2) Next time you (or I) think that we're smart, bright, intelligent etc. let's BE HUMBLE and add, "of course, I am not________ in comparison to James Burke. Almost nobody is." This was truly brain achingly MAGNIFICENT! Thanks again & again.
@Drgonzosfaves Жыл бұрын
The wise man listens, while the fool chatters.
@amuzedbiu98822 жыл бұрын
Kudos to the BBC for hiring these guys and then allow them to go out there and inform us brilliantly for decades👍🏼 Well done 🏆!
@olsonspeed8 ай бұрын
Always a pleasure to hear James Burke explain how we got to where we are today.
@stephenbarrette610Ай бұрын
James Burke is a legendary science communicator. His work for the BBC during the Apollo missions was fantastic and the I vividly remember the Apollo 11 - 17 live broadcasts and filmed inserts, (the BBC in its wisdom and cost saving reused / wiped most of the actual Apollo 11 landing coverage.). His Connections series were just incredible. I’m not 100% certain but I think this lecture must date from around 2001- 2 and his predictions of the social impact of the internet, the impact on education and how we might all have our own information bubbles, was extraordinary prescient. And he even talked about the impact of bots and neural networks briefly. Quite amazing. Thanks James for helping me to have a curious mind and love of science.
@jimfling21283 жыл бұрын
This talk was in Portland sometime in early 2000. He must like Portland I saw him there in the 1980's. One of my sons met him in an elevator a few years ago and he was delighted that he was remembered for his "Confections" and talks. If our schools taught History and Geography and social science using his videos and talks I know the subjects would be favorites instead of hated.
@michaeldriver127 Жыл бұрын
Oregon, right?
@graemewilson79758 ай бұрын
James Burke made something completely incomprehensible comprehensible. Truly brilliant TV presenter and serie(s)
@graemewilson79758 ай бұрын
Although he couldn't make the Tories comprehensible or pleasant...
@Parknest8 ай бұрын
James Burke has a brilliant mind. Most of this is still relevant today (as are his various series' of "Connections"). He is an absolute legend and injects quite a bit of humour into the proceedings. He is up there with the late great Carl Sagan.
@skulptor3 жыл бұрын
From 1993? James now 84..great presenter.Connections was inspirational.
@suziehammond44334 жыл бұрын
Excellent and thought provoking as usual for Mr Burke
@michaelmarton54833 жыл бұрын
1:03:30 Spot on!!!! Predicted in 2001 exactly what's happening on the internet now. Amazing.
@JohnMiller-mmuldoor3 жыл бұрын
Damn
@Drgonzosfaves Жыл бұрын
When you see and understand the history of connections, future predictions can be far more accurate. "I am Criswell, I know all." (Psst, no he didn't.)
@greendeane13 жыл бұрын
The problem with "internet knowledge" is that there is no quality control. Any piece of garbage can be presented as well-wrought fact, and, good research can be demonized into obscurity (if even being allowed to be seen..... there are, after all, community standards..
@MaconMedia3 жыл бұрын
This is where Critical Thinking Skills come in handy. Of course, I fully realize that probably 19 out of 20 internet users do not possess these skills. (ΘεΘ;)
@steviebudden33973 жыл бұрын
@Jeffery Amherst : I would suggest that it's showing up in this very video.
@StefanTravis3 жыл бұрын
All forms of communication have exactly the same problem. One half of the solution is therefore exactly the same: Call it critical thinking, skepticism, bullshit detection or whatever. The other half doesn't quite exist yet: The automation of critical thinking, fact checking, intellectual caution etc. That would be _real_ artificial intelligence.
@prebenso3 жыл бұрын
Quality control is where you come in - you measure everything in relation to your own prejudices. Facebooks and googles attempt to qualify what they will allow on their platforms will end in their biasses as a filter of truth where your experiences tells you something else and so on and so on.
@steviebudden33973 жыл бұрын
@@StefanTravis: Artificial wisdom perhaps? :)
@andrefelixstudio28338 ай бұрын
It’s very clever, like 6° of separation somebody knows somebody who knows somebody and that somebody get stuff done!
@terrypage3582 жыл бұрын
I admire James. There aren't many people like him around anymore.
@DasypusN Жыл бұрын
There was never many like him.
@freesaxon68358 ай бұрын
James Burke I remember his programmes from the 70s. A time when folks expressed themselves fully, without self imposed stupidity, and insincere rules. James is a living example of excellence of those times. One thing he has wrong is folks ARE dumbed down
@4Funoff3 жыл бұрын
Не потеряло актуальность даже сейчас!! Отличный спикер!! Благодарю за это видео!! =))
@carlvickoren6996 Жыл бұрын
I was a fan of connections even before I lived In England! Oh yes the BBC is indeed a meer shadow of itself! The news is the prime example!
@jkforde723 ай бұрын
I love James Burke. He's an inspiration who I rely on when I lose faith in human beings. I would love to share a few pints with him.
@jesusisunstoppable44382 ай бұрын
James Burke would say that you're a Low IQ knob for having faith in humanity.
@niklar559 ай бұрын
👍😊 The inimitable James Burke at his best. Most enjoyable. .
@ambulocetusnatans4 жыл бұрын
He really nailed it. Great lecture.
@venerablebeade3 жыл бұрын
Burke wouldn't get a look in on the BBC these days- he ticks no boxes, is well educated , highly knowledgeable and thought provoking, none of which sit well with the Beeb's current obsessive drive towards dumbed down 'inclusivity' and woke 'journalism'
@Tsar_NicholasIII3 жыл бұрын
He worked for them last year.
@kenhymes49003 жыл бұрын
What the reply below said, plus: you mean the BBC that has a mandate in place, most recently applied in a warning to Nish Kumar, to repress left speech by invoking "balance"? To which Kumar said something like, "Boris is smart and diseases are good. Happy?" Look, I'm a big fan of Burke within his limits. And it serves no one including him to place him at one end of a hyped up culture war, a war that is always so much less what the powerful have on their minds than the class war. Burke became a sort of postmodernist, a gentler, more humanist version than those i ran into in sociology. He is neither narrow nor a points scorer. I suggest following his example.
@donnaezrol47773 жыл бұрын
That's why we have to make him a part of an interdisciplinary approach to education. If you're an educator, introduce him or his books in your plans or courses.
@donnaezrol47773 жыл бұрын
It's a way of learning. Not so much the content, but a different way of thinking. In the way he explained the way Bartolli , Copernicus and Galileo sheshow gravity would have made my understanding of algebra much better especially if they included Kepler!
@otsoko663 жыл бұрын
@@Tsar_NicholasIII Nick: You can convince those on the right with stuff like truth. Their first principle is that their feelings matter more than any pesky facts.
@MymilanitalyBlogspot2 жыл бұрын
Thrilling, as usual, thank you, Dr Burke. My concern: a possible lack of a desire for excellence. Some words of de Tocqueville about democracy ring frequently in my mind, and can be more broadly applied; to paraphrase, 'it will work only if the participant is well informed.'
@Jagueyes1 Жыл бұрын
If we've accomplished this much with obviously minimal Divine involvement, no wonder the Bible declares that the heart of man cannot conceive what God has in store for those that love Him. All life directed by DIVINITY, the way it was designed to be!
@petcatznz8 ай бұрын
How can this only have 166k views? James Burke is an absolute treasure.
@krisclark86195 ай бұрын
Because change has happened to attention span and nobody has the time to watch a video over an hour.
@JenSell16262 ай бұрын
@@krisclark8619H bomber guy had a very large 4 hour romp on plagiarism you might quite like! 😅
@kennethisagooddrawer3 жыл бұрын
I love how the toilet paper remains front and center for the whole thing.
@thomasd24443 жыл бұрын
03:21 - In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place at the right time. It is the task of journalists & historians to rectify this error. -- Mark Twain
@stevealexander80103 жыл бұрын
"Many internet quotes are fallacious" - Abraham Lincoln. Twain/Clemens NEVER said that.
@j.vonhogen9650 Жыл бұрын
@@stevealexander8010- James Burke was just joking. Of course Mark Twain never said that.
@miriamkellner11122 жыл бұрын
Amazing...as we always expect from James Burke!
@L111GTV3 жыл бұрын
What a privilege to listen to this man. I recall watching much of his tv work as a child and young adult and was enthralled . Nigh on 20 years ago he predicted so much. I have had no TV for two years and have spent my time learning QED to Jung's synchronisty to Dr Peterson's psychology and so much more. Brilliant visionary man, how many more will his foresight reveal to us!
@pocketstring36348 ай бұрын
A guy once said to me, “well, things are looking up.” I look at him in shock and replied, “why!What’s falling on them?!”
@soapbxprod3 жыл бұрын
Intellectual caviar. Or intellectual smoked salmon. both wonderful. Thank you James Burke.
@kayharker7123 жыл бұрын
All his programs are here archive.org/details/ConnectionsByJamesBurke
@othoapproto96033 жыл бұрын
Schools should teach history as James burke dose. You can't separate history and science.
Ай бұрын
"Television is dead and doesn't know it". TV has been dead to me for twenty years.
@yukkydukky17526 ай бұрын
He is the absolute best ever . Brings back great memories. There was a lot of programs he presented , brilliant
@gerryboudreaultboudreault26088 ай бұрын
I always loved his Connections series, and his witty sense of humor. Still timeless. Unfortunately, today's internet/smartphone dummies probably won't understand Burke...
@johnpbh3 жыл бұрын
What a stunningly perceptive lecture. And as for the after dinner questions...... the answer to that last one was truthful and, above all, correct and I wonder how many people believe it.
@decibellone6965 ай бұрын
LOVE James Burke, he one of my heros. one thing, the "high rates of innovation today" are nothing more than subtle changes example: Sonet and Eithernet, combustion engine vs electric, how many pixels you can fit is just and expansion of an existing science. our rate of expansion has be more like refinement - not expansion. example analog data transfer, now is fiber optic, it works on the same principal, one was sound frequencies (analog) the other is light frequencies (fiber optic) - the principal is the same.
@davidfarrall7 ай бұрын
This smart man was a presenter on the TV programme Tomorrows World in the 1970s. He’s come so far today, a great speaker and raconteur and historian.
@golach4202 жыл бұрын
An amazing man. A British national treasure in the same realm as David Attenborough. I've watched both their productions since I was a boy in the 70s.
@pressureworks8 ай бұрын
Interesting how he is referring to subjects he covered in his Connections series. And having seen those programs, makes the understanding of this lecture easier.
@philipclayberg49283 жыл бұрын
The only constant in the universe is change.
@ezza88ster3 жыл бұрын
IMO: Interesting to hear a view from 2002. Who would have thought at the time that the internet would be commercially, and cynically, driven to corrode the very idea of agreed knowledge or truth? Eg. You Tube changing from a star-based rating system to a like-unlike rating system because conflict generates clicks; generates income...for a few...at a terrible cost.
@philipmcdonagh1094 Жыл бұрын
Been watching this guys documentaries since the 80's. He makes things so clear and easy to understand that even the phylum Cnidaria among us could understand him.
@marks.29098 ай бұрын
James Burke in the top 1% for me ,
@DrMukeshChauhan6 ай бұрын
Agree with you
@Hailstormand7 ай бұрын
His documentaries have set me on an irreversible path of never thinking in a straight line when it comes to considering something. It hurts the brain, but when taken in the shape of a story, surprisingly entertaining.
@Grimenoughtomaketherobotcry3 жыл бұрын
Burke was hoarding toilet paper twenty years ago! He really could see the future...
@paulquine67283 жыл бұрын
James Burke has three brains in his head.
@rosemarywessel12947 ай бұрын
James Burke has always been amazing. All three series of Connections are good, but I especially like the two-part "After the Warming" on climate change. Even now, about 30-35 years later, it's one of the best intros to global climate systems. It's set in 2050, looking back at what happened to Earth's systems. Part one reviews how climate affected what humans did up until the industrial revolution, then part two reviews how what humans since the industrial revolution did to the climate.
@Horaczkocom3 жыл бұрын
Logic connection is everywhere . And he can prove it.
@davidwilkie95513 жыл бұрын
If you grew up with a standard practice of "lies to children" mostly because the story telling was an entertainment to the teller to "toughen you up", then "there's no new news, only new angles" such as internet marketing etc, to the same old cruelty. This outstanding presentation is the opposite, something of real Intelligence in style that will gradually increase in popularity, because it has actual value for viewers.
@Sueezedtight3 жыл бұрын
"Knowledge" is just getting more specific, gargantuan and ponderous. As we are inundated with factoids, opinion and speculation, the task of carrying and managing all of this flood pushes us towards allowing bots and such like to shore up the dam of our conscious awareness. "Knowing" on the other hand, is as ephemeral and as intrinsic as it ever was. Genius is created through the application of endeavour. Knowing how to do something is vastly more useful and infinitely less taxing than the knowledge of its existence and effect. This is why how we learn is much more important than what we learn. Efficiency is energy's enigmatic eulogy.
@billwilson-es5yn8 ай бұрын
I remember watching this episode long ago and wondered how old it was since Burke showcased rotary dial telephones as modern technology.
@danapeck53823 жыл бұрын
Such a delight, fun to relive his perspective.
@nthpersonАй бұрын
As a young person moving from high school to college I completed two courses in economics. Only some years later did I realize that economics was the simplified (i.e., reductionist) sub-discipline of political economy, which was also a sub-discipline of moral philosophy. Any understanding of how human societies are organized and function starts with moral philosophy. Yet, we humans cannot agree on the moral principles required for the establishment of just societies.
@IseppOrg3945Ай бұрын
Brilliant. I am encouraged that you have this insight at the beginning of your career. You might read, Knowledge and teh Wealth of NAtions, by David Warsh. Good history leading up to the story of Paul Romer (Nobel 2018). I would be happy to chat (Zoom) with you if you would like some tips from an old guy. email me at bristol@isepp.org.
@videoloverboy6 ай бұрын
Right. We asked too. Looks like this was broadcast October 5, 2001 on PBS/BBC. Someone mentioned the location was Oregon - thanks. Can someone explain why where and when does NOT MATTER?
@andrewgillespie67948 ай бұрын
James Burke and David Attenborough enthralled me as a boy.❤
@mortarmopp39198 ай бұрын
Great lecture. Would've been nice if the poster told us when and where it took place.
@CarRepairScams6 ай бұрын
James Burke 20011005 Is the Internet Redefining Knowledge
@iancooper90008 ай бұрын
Loved watching this again. Never ages!
@Jagueyes1 Жыл бұрын
LIFE is a boundless mind working through the clauses that prohibit the conscious communication with ours. One day the veil will fall. Thy Kingdom come!
@burtonwilliams53553 жыл бұрын
Hadn't all wished that they would loved to have him as a history prof in college ?
@b8nnytez6 ай бұрын
"Television is dead and doesn't know it"😮 Man nailed it
@macsnafu7 ай бұрын
His cross-disciplinary and non-linear approach to history and technology opens up so many different avenues and ideas, that it's hard to know what to specifically focus and comment on. But I'll have to remember that Baskin-Robbins comment! I also looked it up: James Burke is still alive today, at 87 years of age.
@PaulFishwick Жыл бұрын
Burke’s speech at 33:00 is prescient of Large Language Models like ChatGPT
@recnepsgnitnarb65303 жыл бұрын
I do agree that the internet has helped many to expand their research. Unfortunately, it hasn't really spread the knowledge but only spread the stupidity faster.
@dfmayes3 жыл бұрын
Yes! He didn't say (or realize) that the Internet will give equal volume to wisdom and idiocy.
@tortysoft7 ай бұрын
I wanted to hear the end of his last answer... and everything else he says too. I saw him once in a London street. I was in awe, I could say nothing. Now I'm a teacher and podcaster - and Green politician ( in waiting ) - still in awe. All he says in this video is true today.
@azizsaya13 жыл бұрын
For all the episodes: Connections (1978) www.dailymotion.com/video/x683nrt?playlist=x52p5u Connections 2 (1994) www.dailymotion.com/video/x683nrt?playlist=x52p5u Connections 3 (1997) www.dailymotion.com/video/x6hibhx?playlist=x6x3q6
@bro_dBow7 ай бұрын
I so longed for James Burke's take on the Coming Wave. Connections, indeed.
@andrewblack78523 жыл бұрын
Connections is both smart and silly. So many of the connections are partial or skewed... but it informed my youth and helped me to think in a similar method of pattern and connections
@Drgonzosfaves Жыл бұрын
It's difficult to cram that much information into 56 minutes, but he does it nicely.
@cashewABCD3 жыл бұрын
"junk printed after Gutenberg, we'll manage" yeah I'm with James. Social change take longer than technological. Slowly we are learning the social media pitfalls and adjusting. Might take another generation..
@cashewABCD3 жыл бұрын
Information from business and government - you mean propaganda. Lol.
@physchir3 жыл бұрын
If society survives that long, then sure
@user-of5uo6ex7y2 ай бұрын
Simply great
@jamesmoore56302 жыл бұрын
I have watched everthing James Burke has ever said on T.V,,, and I guess by the numbers of views, ect. That most other people haven't got a clue who he is, or the number would be in the millions. Or at least they should be, however most of the people who have tried to watch him, (with me), over the decades, just plain cannot keep up with him!!! I am glad that after 24 years, he is still giving lectures, and I am still here to watch them!!! If you want to hear the only story of man, from beginning to end, that is told where and when it happened, James Burke, will be the person to tell it!!! Brother James Kendall Moore OSB (OFS OSC.) "Medicine Park-The Holy City," Oklahoma.(Named by FDR, 1934.)
@sgcollins3 жыл бұрын
I wish these lecture videos gave us the dates when they were recorded. It's difficult to put a person's thoughts in context if you don't know what year they spoke them.
@pierrepa83723 жыл бұрын
it a month after 9/11 I found it their website
@pierrepa83723 жыл бұрын
October 5th, 2001
@seanmcdonald58593 жыл бұрын
James Burkes head and works must preserved for future generations to study and marvel at. . . . . . .obviously preserving his head can wait until he is no longer using it . . . . . . . I miss tv like Connections . . . . .remember when science channels werent full of dumbass "it was aliens" shows . . . .good times.
@johndangelo96303 жыл бұрын
Brilliant Man
@berendharmsen3 жыл бұрын
When did he do this lecture? It would have been nice if that were part of the description.