In the tradition of Being Digital and The Tipping Point, Steven Johnson, acclaimed as a "cultural critic with a poet's heart" (The Village Voice), takes readers on an eye-opening journey through emergence theory and its applications.
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For two years, we have followed the construction of the new California Department of Transportation headquarters in LA to learn the architectural, structural, and mechanical challenges of building mega-skyscrapers.

In this episode of Century of Flight, review the great long-distance flights and the aviators who achieved them, including color re-enactments using restored and replica aircraft. The great transatlantic flights are featured together with those to the Orient and Africa. The conquering of the Pacific is covered, including Amelia Earhart and the mystery of her disappearance. See how these pioneers paved the way for modern airliners.

Follow our expert, high-profile panel of judges as they pick, rank, and comment on THE GREATEST EVER‘s top ten motorbikes of all time; the ones that push the boundaries of speed, performance, and style. Our team puts their picks through the paces, testing out their claims: racing a superbike with a jet, tossing a bike off a four-storey building and filling its tank with cooking grease. Our well-known, eclectic panel then debates and argues the virtues...

In the fourth episode of Inside the Factory Gregg joins a multi-stage manual production line to make his very own bike. Meanwhile, Cherry Healey gets some tips from Cycling Team GB to help us all improve our pedal power. Cherry also investigates why cyclists and trucks are such a deadly combination: in London alone there have been 66 fatalities since 2011 and half of them were collisions with a truck. And historian Ruth Goodman reveals that folding...

In this episode of Century of Flight, we experience the madcaps and oddballs of aviation. See massive haulers and tiny racers; watch Birdmen of the 1920’s and 30’s launch themselves from rocks, buildings and cliffs. Experience the many innovations of human powered aircraft, solar powered planes, and aerodynamic designs that have contributed to the development of modern, high tech machines.

In this episode of Century of Flight, we follow the early development of flying machines, from Leonardo da Vinci's ornithopter, to the Deperdussin Monoplane. Experience the trialsof early engineers and pilots evolve into military craft and air show aerobatics. Watch the Wright Brothers first flight in 1903, and the first combat mission flown byCaptain Piazza in 1911.

This episode of Century of Flight examines the development of global power Air Forces between World War I and World War II. Study efforts to disarm Germany and create peace at the Geneva Convention; learn how Hitler secretly formed the Luftwaffe, which carried out terrifying Blitzkriegs. See technological developments in speed and endurance, and of anti-aircraft defenses such as radar.

The most priceless jewels in the arsenals of a handful of countries, some nuclear submarines carry more firepower than all the bombs dropped in history.