James Burke predicts social media revolution in 1986 

Good to see the social distancing.

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

This bloke saw this about 40 years ago. Legend.

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

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.

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 …

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.

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.

''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 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 hit the nail right on the head 🔨

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

I hope he invested wisely during the next 14 years.

This is really predicting remote work and social isolation.

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

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

Amazing clip. Seems like he's picturing people working from home with the internet in Less car dependent communities.

JB nailed it.

That time was glorious

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WOW Spot on

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

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.

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

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.

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

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'S MY DOG!!!

this due is an OG and an ESP!?!

Wow

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

Ah, those were more optimistic times...

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's just drawing on the work of Marshal Macluhan.

man that one guy has such an odd accent

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.

He also must have predicted the Corona virus because he and the host are practicing social distancing . Ahoohoohoohoo!!!!!😀

Wow, Lucky guess.

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

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.....