8.0/101 votes#1 - Making Stuff Faster
Season 41 Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/2013
Ever since humans stood on two feet we have had the basic urge to go faster. But are there physical limits to how fast we can go? David Pogue wants to find out, and in "Making Stuff Faster," he’ll investigate everything from electric muscle cars and the America’s cup sailboat to bicycles that smash speed records. Along the way, he finds that speed is more than just getting us from point A to B, it's also about getting things done in less time. From boarding a 737 to pushing the speed light travels, Pogue's quest for ultimate speed limits takes him to unexpected places where he’ll come face-to-face with the final frontiers of speed.
Director: Michael Bicks
Writer: N/A
7.5/102 votes#2 - Smartest Machine on Earth
Season 38 Episode 13 - Aired 2/9/2011
Augmenting human intelligence is a lot tougher than it looks, and the promise of "Hal" from 2001: A Space Odyssey is still just a fantasy. But scientists are edging closer with machines like "Watson," an IBM computing system that is gearing up for a first-of-its-kind challenge: taking on human contestants on the game show Jeopardy! With a brain the size of 2,400 home computers and a database of about 10 million documents, will Watson be able to compute its way to victory? Given the complexity of human language, could any computer truly understand it? It remains to be seen if this amalgam of circuits and silicon can really take us closer to the dream of a fully developed artificial intelligence, a truly "conscious" machine. Win or lose, the difficulty of mimicking the human thought process with software is showing artificial-intelligence researchers that there's more than one way to be "intelligent."
Director: Michael Bicks
Writer: N/A
7.0/101 votes#3 - Making Stuff Colder
Season 41 Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/2013
Cold is the new hot in this brave new world. For centuries we've fought it, shunned it, and huddled against it. Cold has always been the enemy of life, but now it may hold the key to a new generation of science and technology that will improve our lives. In "Making Stuff Colder," David Pogue explores the frontiers of cold science from saving the lives of severe trauma patients to ultracold physics, where bizarre new properties of matter are the norm and the basis of new technologies like levitating trains and quantum computers.
Director: Michael Bicks
Writer: Vincent Liota
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"Making Stuff Faster" is the best rated episode directed by Michael Bicks. It scored 8/10 based on 1 votes. It was written by N/A. It aired on 10/16/2013 and is rated 0.5 points higher than their second-best episode, "Smartest Machine on Earth".