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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
It used to be that if you had a question about something you had to do the leg work of going to the library or talking to actual people with knowledge on the subject. Now people get sucked into a rabbit hole and become misinformed about multiple things. Sometimes in only a few minutes.
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
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.
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-
