If I was an opinion columnist I’d spend my whole life traveling around, embedding in various industries and sectors, basically getting paid to explore humanity and surface ideas. Instead, we have these people.
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My dream TV show is called “THE CITY.” Each episode is an hour, and explains, in incredible detail, the smallest facet of a working society. Like, how do traffic lights work? How are they networked? What are the logic diagrams for operation? How do they fail? Who works on them?
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I mean, you could spend hours on how surface street signaling works. How the sensors work. How they’re monitored. The history of the lights and filters. Enclosure designs. The merits of different hanging systems. How birds cause problems. How poles are designed to shear when hit.
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I’ve watched hundreds, maybe most, of the episodes of Modern Marvels, which is an incredible show and does a fascinating, if high-level, summary of various human engineering accomplishments. Air Disasters is super amazing about failure investigation as well.
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I spent my teenage years downloading documentaries and engineering TV shows from Gnutella and BitTorrent and archiving them and watching them. And editing Wikipedia.
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Replying to @SwiftOnSecurity
Did you ever watch the old BBC series “Connections”?
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I was going to ask if Tay-Tay had read any John McPhee. "Connections" was a show I should have loved in theory, but couldn't stand the guy's voice for more than ten seconds
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Replying to @Pinboard @SwiftOnSecurity
Did you watch the 70s one or the more recent and less inspired remake?
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