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Article description: (description ) This attribute controls the content of the description and og:description elements. | Well-regarded 1978 documentary series by British Science Historian James Burke. Subtitled "An Alternative View of Change", Connections presented what would come to be known as the web theory of history, rejecting the straight-line notion of technological progress, instead presenting major aspects of the modern world as the end product of long strings of happy accidents where the historical context causes two otherwise unrelated tracks happen into each other (For example, he attributes rocketry to the coincident of a meat shortage in England with malaria in the Florida swamps). The series traced paths leading to radar, the atom bomb, the computer, television, plastic, the production line, and similar installments in the modern world. |