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Following the trail of events from some point in the past to a piece of modern technology is rather like a detective story, with you as the detective, knowing only as much as the people in the past do, and like them having to guess at what was likely to happen next.

— James Burke Connections (1979)

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Above all, at some point, everybody is involved in the business of change, not just the so-called "great men."

Connections (1979)

Never before have so many people understood so little about so much.

Connections (1979)

And as it spreads, will it spread the ability to use machines, as we do, without understanding them?

Connections (1979)

The trouble is, that's not easy when you have been taught as I was, for example, that things in the past happened in straight-forward lines.

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Some things, this ritual says, must be permanent.

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