The Day the Universe Changed
Season 1 Episode 10 - Worlds Without End: Changing Knowledge, Changing Reality
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.
Episodes in Season 1
The Way We Are: It Started with the Greeks
45 min
In the Light of the Above: Medieval Conflict: Faith and Reason
45 min
Point of View: Scientific Imagination in the Renaissance
45 min
A Matter of Fact: Printing Transforms Knowledge
45 min
Infinitely Reasonable: Science Revises the Heavens
45 min
Credit Where It's Due: The Factory and Marketplace Revolution
45 min
What the Doctor Ordered: Impacts of New Medical Knowledge
45 min
Fit to Rule: Darwin's Revolution
45 min
Making Waves: The New Physics: Newton Revised
45 min
Worlds Without End: Changing Knowledge, Changing Reality
45 min
