The tech gods suck in all this data about how we use their technologies to build their vast fortunes. ibid.
Human civilisation has come a long way over the last two and a half thousand years … We may soon have to change our idyllic view of the ancient world. Clues from the bottom of the Mediterranean sea are said to reveal this was a world more advanced than we could ever have imagined. Ancient Discoveries s1e1: Ancient Computer? History 2003
A mysterious and arcane machine … hidden for centuries beneath the Mediterranean sea … What they saw inside astonished them: a mass of gears and cogs. A machine but what was it for? And who had created it? … Known as the Antikythera Mechanism. ibid.
‘Computers offer an endless source of inspiration.’ Tomorrow’s World, cited Tomorrow’s World Live: For One Night Only, BBC 2018
Wired to fourteen channels of body function, an experimental subject practices biofeedback. Using biofeedback people reduce muscular tension, redirect blood flow, and perform feats previously thought impossible. Might we one day create super-athletes? Could biofeedback bring about a revolution in human health. In Search of s6e2 … Biofeedback, 1981
By the middle of the decade three million homes had a home computer. BBC2 crashed into the craze with the series Micro Live … The Home that 2 Built s1e3: Eighties, BBC 2020
Quantum computers could transform the planet. The Universe s7e5: Microscopic Universe, 2012
What is the Antikythera Mechanism? Where did it come from? And how does it work? History’s Greatest Mysteries s4e8: The Antikythera Mechanism
The Greek islands, 1900: Greek authorities ask the divers to help salvage items from the shipwreck … What is this mysterious ship? And where did it come from? … The device is dubbed the Antikythera Mechanism …. and it’s much more complex than originally thought. ibid.