James Burke Legend Connections 1 The Trigger Effect

Why HN readers recommended it

Recommended whenever outages and cascading failures come up, as a classic on interdependent systems.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Tim Callinan

Topic

technological interdependence

Format

documentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2022–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• The "Trigger Effect" episode ( [VIDEO] ) that set off Connections:I was one of the finest hours ever produced for television. It influenced my family and I in the years to come. Hope for the best, while preparing for the worst. It begins at South …

• This resonates very much with the Connections[0] series by James Burke. It's an old series, but well worth the watch. Back then it already discussed what would happen if the grid would collapse, and how everything is interconnected. Now with the internet it has gotten …

• You may enjoy the first episode of James Burke's Connections ("The Trigger Effect"), if you've not seen it. [VIDEO]