NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - Limitless Energy
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/9/2023
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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8.9/109 votesLoading...#2 - Seeing the Future
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 11/9/2023
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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8.9/107 votesLoading...#3 - In the Net
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/9/2023
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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8.9/107 votesLoading...#4 - None of This is Real
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/9/2023
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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9.2/106 votesLoading...#5 - The End of Scarcity
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/9/2023
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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9.2/105 votesLoading...#6 - Designer Genes
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/9/2023
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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The Worst Episodes of Connections with James Burke
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A revival of the old series
Genre:Documentary
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Worst Episodes Summary
"Limitless Energy" is the worst rated episode of "Connections with James Burke". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 11/9/2023. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Seeing the Future".