S2E10: New Media, Old Story
Radio was originally a social medium, as early radio sets (each of which could transmit as well as receive) turned cities into giant chatroo...
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The Secret History of the Future
Change your perception of the past and you'll discover the secret history of the future. From the world's first cyber attack in 1834, to 19th century virtual reality, The Economist's Tom Sta...
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20 of 22 episodesS2E9: A Brief History Of Timekeeping
The first mechanical clocks were made to summon monks to prayer. Ever since, timekeeping technology has often been about control and obligat...
S2E8: Salvation In The Air
At the dawn of the 20th century, chemists dreamed of extracting nitrogen from the air and turning it into a limitless supply of fertiliser....
S2E7: A Bug In The System
The first ever computer program was written in 1843 by Ada Lovelace, a mathematician who hoped her far-sighted treatise on mechanical comput...
S2E6: Dots, Dashes, and Dating Apps
In the 19th century, young people wooed each other over the telegraph. But meeting strangers on the wires could lead to confusion, disappoin...
S2E5: Mars on Earth
Polar exploration was the Victorian equivalent of the space race. Major powers vied to outdo each other, funding expeditions to the most inh...
S2E4: Meat and Potatoes
The potato seemed strange and unappetizing when it first arrived in Europe. But it grew into a wonder food that helped solve the continent’s...
S2E3: Unreliable Evidence
In the early 20th century a new forensic technique—fingerprinting—displaced a cruder form of identification based on body measurements. Hail...
S2E2: Second Wind
For thousands of years we sailed our cargo across oceans using zero-emission, 100 percent renewable wind. Then we switched to ships that run...
S2E1: A Familiar Tune
The 19th century invention of the phonograph left composers worried they might not be paid for recordings. The 20th century proliferation of...
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What can 19th century polar exploration teach us as humans plan missions to Mars? Do modern online dating apps have anything to learn from r...
S1E10: Infinite Scroll
The Renaissance scholars couldn’t keep up with new information (“Have you read the latest Erasmus book?” “I don’t have time!”) and needed a...
S1E9: A Little Less Conversation
Some people thought the laying of the transatlantic cable might bring world peace, because connecting humans could only lead to better under...
S1E8: VR or It Didn’t Happen
In the Victorian era, plaster casts became a way to preserve important artifacts in 3-D. Now, virtual reality promises to preserve places an...
S1E7: A Clock in the Sky
In 1714, British parliament offered a huge cash prize to anyone who could find a way to determine longitude at sea. And it worked, sort of ....
S1E6: From Zero to Selfie
In 1969, an anthropologist introduced photographs and films to people in Papua New Guinea who’d never seen themselves represented in media b...
S1E5: Human Insecurity
The French telegraph system was hacked in 1834 by a pair of thieves who stole financial market information -- effectively conducting the wor...
S1E4: The Fault In Our Cars
The first pedestrian killed by a car in the western hemisphere was on New York’s Upper West Side in 1899. One newspaper warned that “the aut...
S1E3: Fork Fashions and Toilet Trends
It took a long time for the fork to go from weird curiosity to ubiquitous tool. How long will it take for current technologies -- like the J...
S1E2: The Body Electric
We’ve used electricity to treat our brains for thousands of years, from placing electric fish on our heads to cure migraines to using electr...
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