Came here to post this. Love James Burke's work! Connections is my all-time favorite documentary. It changed how I think about technological progress (or really

Came here to post this. Love James Burke's work! Connections is my all-time favorite documentary. It changed how I think about technological progress (or really, historical progress generally). Frankly this article should have credited Burke since it reads like a summary of the Connections episode you mentioned. But I guess everybody steals from everybody.