As someone who loved "Connections" and is highly tolerant of the simplified leaps from one discovery/advance/situation to another, I think it was a bit of a stretch sometimes to tie something like teosinte to the big bang.
And I laughed out loud at the idea that colonial conquest was due to pesticides. I don't dispute the facts of the spice trade getting us here, but the way it was presented did give me a chuckle.
It did make me think about how uneven distribution of the planet's features and bugs set up a lock-in that only permitted certain outcomes. And how that continues to play out, and will for the deep future as well. And I imagine that was the point.
I thought it was well done and enjoyable, as well as provocative.
And I laughed out loud at the idea that colonial conquest was due to pesticides. I don't dispute the facts of the spice trade getting us here, but the way it was presented did give me a chuckle.
It did make me think about how uneven distribution of the planet's features and bugs set up a lock-in that only permitted certain outcomes. And how that continues to play out, and will for the deep future as well. And I imagine that was the point.
I thought it was well done and enjoyable, as well as provocative.