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The Best Episodes of Connections with James Burke Season 1

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The Best Episodes of Connections with James Burke Season 1

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  1. 9.2/10(6 votes)

    #1 - Designer Genes

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    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. Will we want to be Super-Human?

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  2. 8.9/10(8 votes)

    #2 - In the Net

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

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  3. 8.9/10(8 votes)

    #3 - None of This is Real

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    Dog pee, the Polaroid camera, and rocket fuel lead us to a future where AI is indistinguishable from human intelligence. If we can’t tell machines and people apart, what will that mean for humanity?

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  4. 8.7/10(11 votes)

    #4 - Seeing the Future

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    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.

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  5. 8.7/10(8 votes)

    #5 - The End of Scarcity

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    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 you wish for, molecule by molecule, for free. What will that mean for the value of things?

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    #6 - Limitless Energy

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    How did a journey that began thousands of years ago with the Inca and the potato, connect to a mad scientist in a castle, and German beer, then bring us to the brink of a future with clean, limitless energy? And what will that future mean for humanity?

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"Designer Genes" is the best rated episode of "Connections with James Burke" season 1. It scored 9.2/10 based on 6 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 11/9/2023. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "In the Net".