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Interesting insights. I have the full DVD set of this amazing series. I wonder what Mr. Burke might think of AI? I've heard it said that AI is one of the more important tools that humans have created. Much of this series and Mr. Burke's other series too, are about tools and how those tools came to be. Of all the innovations, perhaps the move from fractions to decimals might be the more far-reaching change?

He was very prescient because our attention spans for information are even shorter in the age of the Internet than they were in the mid-70s

"Except that while doing all this, they shot you." British humor, it's the best!

His flippant and jokey presentation is relentless in series two and three - it feels like an educational programme for school kiddies.