Yesterday, Tomorrow and You
James Burke concludes this look at 2,000 years of human ingenuity by turning from the past to the present. In the last of this series of ten programmes, he searches for clues that link the ways in which change has happened in the past to the way our modern world, and our lives, will change in their turn. What lessons can we learn by looking at history in this way? What will tomorrow bring for us - and are we ready for it?
This week, he shows how the results of all those amazing connections in the past are all around us now -without our realising it. Do we know enough to predict how they will connect and bring change for us? Can we control it -and do we care?
Film editor PAUL CARTER
Photography DAVID FEIG , TONY PIERCE-ROBERTS Produced by MICK JACKSON and DAVID KENNARD See Letters pages