James Burke predicts social media revolution in 1986
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
- This is from the "After Words" segment (not available on DVD) of James Burke's TV series "The Day the Universe Changed" (available on DVD) Episode 4. This was copied from my VHS tape of the original 1986 broadcast on PBS. "The Day the Universe Changed" is one of the best productions on the history of science of all time, and it is not the least bit dated.
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Good to see the social distancing.
Ahead if their time!
Hahaha 🤣
Hahahha
This bloke saw this about 40 years ago.
Legend.
This bloke saw this?
Bro, what type of weed do you smoke
Amazing journalist. James Burke. Don't miss the magic moment of perfect timing:
_WL - "James Burke - perfectly-timed rocket launch 8/20/1977"_
Most clairvoyant journalist of all time.
ah yes, the prescient James Burke - a historian who has learnt the past and applies it to the future
What past events could be applied in 1986 to predict the social media landscape of today? The current state of affairs have no precedence in human history.
@@slaphappyduplenty2436 The decentralization of communication and information brokering through social media has reinvented a radicalized tribalism that was kept at bay for a large portion of the twentieth century after FCC fairness doctrine was implemented. In the same way superstitions and faith healings were common in ancestral times, the electronic de facto "village" is now a social media group that births conspiracy movements like QANON and anti-vaxxing.
*learned.
@@YO-BIZZY
Learned
Teached
etc
It's funny that this video has bee out uploaded since 2014,
but didn't get one comment till after COVID-19,
and that's talked about so much.
That's not true
@@VincenT003 I think you misunderstood what I was saying. I see why. I didn't say it very clearly. I needed to go over it twice, myself. I'll say it better this time:
This video came out on September 1, 2014.
However, no one placed a comment on it, like this one, till after covid-19 came out.
Not sure of "that's talked about so much," but I guess it was the fact that this series is still being broadcasted today, though it's from the 1980s.
I hope that clears it up. You can look over the comments and see that they are no more than 1 year old... at most: after Covid-19 shutdown put people in their homes.
@@VincenT003 I think "that's talked about so much" is about the comments people left. As I look over them, I see a few people speaking of Covid-19 shutdowns.
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.
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.
No, he mentioned that. People are isolated now. Did you listen to the whole video?
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 …
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.
This is really predicting remote work and social isolation.
Yeah, I was like "Village?"
I hope he invested wisely during the next 14 years.
He just didn't predict that it would be 90% garbage
''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.
He hit the nail right on the head 🔨
JB nailed it.
Oh when Britain had such great thinkers. Now days is just woke Truss and Boris the clown.
Makes me wanna cry
There are great thinkers, they just aren't allowed on the mainstream media because they don't believe uncritically in the establishment narrative.
_A beautiful new _*_BLOO_*_ passport._
It's racist, homophobic, fat-phobic and sexist to think freely today.
Mark Zuckerberg watching this: write that down, write that down
Nice Sissy Spacek reference from Blast from the Past!
That time was glorious
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.
Regrettable, that his prediction came true so different and dystopian from what he envisioned
James Burke got the brains and his sister Kathy got the looks.
Tenes el documental completo???
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.
I remember people being rude and threatening before the internet.
@KtotheG not like today .I'm 68 I've seen a big change. But honestly it seems the whole world is o.d. on hate.
this due is an OG and an ESP!?!
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!
WOW Spot on
I’m only calling Instagram an _Electronic Village_ from now on.
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.
no, he talks of return to the village. and that didn't happen.
web mostly connects niche-people, which turn out to be stubborn enough to destroy the niche.
Actually that did happen, I know and am (or can be) up to date and filled in to everything happening with my immediate and extended family and friends continuously (or instantly) regardless of where I am or live currently. Facebook provides that.
I also do not need to have a particularly good memory as I have any piece of information I could need in the palm of my hand.
He understood the power and rightfully predicted what it would morph into. Had he spoke to its downside im sure he would have touched on what you’re referring to.
@@LondonPennP any piece of false information? any piece of guess, foolishness, feminism, minorism, modern history twisting, etc.?
any piece of supression of anything going against political correctness?
@@ivok9846 yeah, or, like, how tall is the Empire State Building, or how many signatures are on the constitution, or what time is it in Tokyo. The only phone numbers I actually know by memory are ones that I used before smartphones were a daily part of my life.
Not everyone focuses on negativity and obvious distractions but sure, you can know the information that suits you and not have to use your memory.
@@LondonPennP well, you need memory to stay away from negativity... heh...
3 things you mention, yeah, world wouldn't even work if someone didn't know those....esp. time in Tokyo
Does anyone remember the music played at the opening of ‘The Real Thing’?
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THAT'S MY DOG!!!
Ah, those were more optimistic times...
Wow
He's just drawing on the work of Marshal Macluhan.
Burke's prediction was completely wrong! Social media/internet led to more isolation, loneliness, and retreat from communal living...
Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds. Happens all the time.
man that one guy has such an odd accent
A British accent?
That's how we speak in England
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.
He also must have predicted the Corona virus because he and the host are practicing social distancing . Ahoohoohoohoo!!!!!😀
The data of the world available at our fingertips. Ha!
David Lightman discovered the internet.
Did so.
Wow, Lucky guess.
Why the hell am I watching this dross
ok before the karens and nannies and advertisers got involved..... "social media" is just plain vanilla commercial shit.....