Basic Info
First Air: March 19, 1985
Rating: ⭐ 8.7/10 (11 votes)
Status: Ended
Seasons & Episodes
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 10
Last Episode
Name: Worlds Without End: Changing Knowledge, Changing Reality
Season: 1, Episode: 10
Air Date: 1985-05-21
Runtime: 45 min
Observes that over the centuries Western civilization has regularly shifted its conception of the nature of truth. The series closes with host James Burke's remarkably prescient assessment of the role in which modern computer networks are beginning to now play in shaping man's current conception of his reality as well as how they may well define the fundamental nature of all future human interaction. And while his message is ultimately a positive one, it is tempered with the warning that while the promise of the computer may indeed provide a framework for a future anarchism where human freedom is nourished and where every individual conception of reality is a valid one, it could conversely become of tool of totalitarian repression and conformity.
The Day the Universe Changed
1985
1 seasons
10 episodes
⭐ 8.7/10
11 votes
Overview
Documentary series about the effect of advances in science and technology on western society in its philosophical aspects.
Genres
Documentary
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- English en
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Cast
James Burke
Crew
Richard Reisz
Producer
John Lynch
Producer
James Burke
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