Here you will find a collection of the best scientific documentaries available online. Focus here is on quality above quantity. There is an endless heap of documentaries that are "scientific" but in fact are not, instead filled with metaphysical ideas, UFOs, bio energies and other meta-sciences. You will not find those here. Other thing is the quantity of information in every documentary itself, often being very low but instead full of special effects and dramatic monologue. Hopefully you won't find those here either.
What you will find are informative, revealing, interesting, mind-boggling and above all scientific documentaries about the marvels of the world surrounding us, or the marvels of human ingenuity.
This is a short talk from TED given by Kevin Kelly. It's an interesting presentation of what technology is in a philosophical sense, displaying it not only as human technology meaning the things or ideas that our civilization invented but more as a natural process that has become the extension of life. I'm not really certain what to think about some thing Kelly mentions here, like connecting the climate changes to the first appearance of man made technology thousands of years ago, however, it beautifully illustrates the irrationality of the fear of technology which makes it is so common in our society to confuse wrong uses of technology for the technology itself, often at the expense of scientific progress.
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