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This dude would later rape 2 women

Wow, James Burke predicting the social impact of the internet, three years before Tim Berners-Lee released HTML and the TCP/IP protocols. Huge fan of Mr Burke since about 1967 …

Did they EVER perform this live when it came out or ANY time in the late 60s or 70s? I don't recall every seeing or hearing a live performance. Brian of course did it with his band as a solo act from the get go, but as a group, I'm certain that they never performed this live before this tour.

Blunder indeed

James Burke got the brains and his sister Kathy got the looks.

The hidden tracks wear out very quickly.

Kraftwerk beat him to it with their album "Computer World" from 1981. They knew what the future would be like. Viel Dank, meinen Herren!!! Prost!

That' game was close

Amazing journalist. James Burke. Don't miss the magic moment of perfect timing: _WL - "James Burke - perfectly-timed rocket launch 8/20/1977"_

I really wish that they have ALL of these ending synopsis for the programs because it was just as important what they said as like the whole program itself. The host at PBS asked such great questions that it left another great insight of what the whole program was about. True, they should include these after analysis on the DVDs.

He just didn't predict that it would be 90% garbage

Ah, those were more optimistic times...

Band director is funny! 😂

Good band, good song, everything… PERFECT!!!

He's just drawing on the work of Marshal Macluhan.

I was learning WordStar and Multimate in 1986. Only the real computer nerds knew there was something beyond that. They knew about UNIX.

I used to love James Burke's programmes, he was a superb presenter and far beyond the numbskulls we get today. The nearest modern comparable would be Professor (and pop star) Brian Cox, although he sticks to space and cosmology rather than technology. One thing he didn't predict is the catastrophic fall in productivity.

This is really predicting remote work and social isolation.

''I think we're about to bump up against a revolution that makes what Gutenberg did look like a quiet afternoon stroll'' James Burke -1986.

I’m only calling Instagram an _Electronic Village_ from now on.

The opposite actually happened. Although people could do what he said, they decided the technology was best used by diving into the technology and completely ignoring the people around them. Just look at dinner tables with everyone on their phones and not talking. Or thousands of people filming concerts instead of living the moment. Not the technologies fault. Human nature's fault.

Regrettable, that his prediction came true so different and dystopian from what he envisioned

ok before the karens and nannies and advertisers got involved..... "social media" is just plain vanilla commercial shit.....

WOW Spot on

The data of the world available at our fingertips. Ha! David Lightman discovered the internet. Did so.

That time was glorious

Cal Band GREAT!

Worse thing about the internet? Because people don't see each other when there is a disagreement. A different opinion some go straight to filthy language, threatening people, stuff they would never have done before.

Burke's prediction was completely wrong! Social media/internet led to more isolation, loneliness, and retreat from communal living...

Don't know who the other guy is, but to me it sounds like he's desperately trying to cover up a thick southern accent, lol.

Hey...This is where the famous bully came from.

I love James Burke but he seems to have missed the part where nut cases spread misinformation and conspiracy theories in order to convert other people into nut cases and conspiracy theorists. I guess that a man with his passion for knowledge and facts might easily miss the impact of such a subversive and insidious social tendency in people.

I mean yeah he predicted that it would let us get a a larger and more interactive experience while staying relatively close to your typical circle.

He hit the nail right on the head 🔨

This bloke saw this about 40 years ago. Legend.

Does anyone remember the music played at the opening of ‘The Real Thing’?

I loved James/BBC's "The Day the Universe Changed" and watched it when it was first broadcast in the UK, back in the mid-1980s. I can honestly say that it changed the way I thought, for the better. James Burke is the most brilliant presenter. Oddly, it took the Covid pandemic to stop those that have never really needed to commute for many years, to work from home. Almost overnight the environment benefited by a small, but noticeable amount. The data has shown it. But convention demands that people return to their offices. Society never likes to change too quickly. Which is a shame, because it's going to have to, because it has resisted gentler change in preceding decades.

Our band failed playing this song soo much

Marshal McLuhan warned, electronic communication, would lead to a “global village” and a re-emergence of “tribal man,” back in the 1950s.

Oh when Britain had such great thinkers. Now days is just woke Truss and Boris the clown.

man that one guy has such an odd accent

JB nailed it.

Mark Zuckerberg watching this: write that down, write that down

A village full of fucking idiots and psychos.

this wasn't perfect, but again it is a symphonic band, and there's so many of them it's hard to balance. our honor band (which im in) is like half these ppl and our symphonic band has 21 people-

My band in school is playing dis lol and I legit keep messing up

Wow! Fantastic. 👍 such an underrated song.

Most clairvoyant journalist of all time.

Kind of easy to forget they're just middle schoolers until you watch a low brass boy bonk another one on the head at 3:05.

Whiever filmed this needs to never ever agin film anytging. You literally ruined and incredible performance with you horrible filming.