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James Burke is a British broadcaster, science historian, author, and television producer, who is known, among other things, for his documentary television series Connections , and for its more philosophically oriented companion series, The Day the Universe Changed , which is about the history of science and technology. The Washington Post has called him "one of the most intriguing minds in the Western world".

✵ 22. prosinec 1936
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“Closing monologue”

The Day the Universe Changed (1985), 10 - Worlds Without End

“Aware that there is no single privileged way of doing things.”

The Day the Universe Changed (1985), 10 - Worlds Without End

“Karnak was the first great statement of what technology could do with unlimited manpower and the approval of the gods. Ironically, the modern equivalent lies, again, in the desert. This time, the nomads also settled by a river… a river of oil. But what had took the pharaohs 4,000 years to build took the Kuwaitis 4,000 days.”

What's happened in Kuwait, the change from a nomadic existence to being able to buy and use everything modern technology has to offer has come in much less than one generation. Kuwait represents the immense power of technology used in a way most of us have never experienced, because we've lived with the kind of change it can bring for more than a hundred years. Here it's been focused. Change has been instant and total. Kuwait has suddenly become like New York, or any other of the great urban islands on technology, totally dependent on that technology. Like them, without it, Kuwait would return to the desert.
Connections (1979), 1 - The Trigger Effect

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