| 1 | * SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Burke pulls off an astonishing feat of timing a monologue on a rocket launch to coincide with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WoDQBhJCVQ an actual rocket launch in 1978]]. And it wasn’t just ''any'' launch. It was the launch of ''Voyager 2'', which would visit all the planets of the Outer Solar System. Burke had only one chance to time this shot, as it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to witness the rocket's launch; if he messed up the timing even slightly, the shot would have been ruined, with no way to fix it (since such techniques didn't exist at the time). Instead, Burke timed it perfectly, resulting in one of the most amazing shots in TV history. |
| 2 | * OlderThanTheyThink : ''Connections'' used the Hoe-Down suite from Aaron Copland's ''Rodeo'' as the background music in episode 8 when Burke was discussing the "great beef race" to deliver refrigerated beef to New Orleans. Most American viewers will recognize the music as the score to the extremely well-known "Beef: It's What's For Dinner" advertising campaign, but ''Connections'' tied the music to beef nearly 15 years before the ads appeared. |
| 3 | * VindicatedByHistory : Too many to name. |
| 4 | ** Probably the biggest was at the end of ''The Day the Universe Changed'' when he shows a microchip and discussed how advances in computers and telecommunications could link the world together, something that you are using right this second. |
| 5 | ** Alternately, his repeated statements in the original ''Connections'' about how with a sufficiently powerful computer, a company, government, or other organisation could analyse arbitrary amounts of data about an arbitrary number of people and figure out the one thing that was most likely to affect their decision about something or other, and act on that knowledge. That's right, James Burke predicted Big Data. In 1978. |
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