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How We Got to Now (2014)

How We Got to Now poster
Genre
documentary
Country
United Kingdom
Length
1 season, 6 episodes
Rating
7.9 of 10 from 10 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Steven Johnson hosts this series that traces the history of big ideas like glass, cold, and sound. It shows how inventions and discoveries connect across time and reshape the world.

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What happens

How We Got to Now is a British-American factual television series that was broadcast on PBS in 2014 and BBC Two in 2015. The series was commissioned by the BBC in the United Kingdom and made by Nutopia, a British-American production company in the United States. The six-part series, presented by Steven Johnson, explores the legacy of great ideas. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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