60 minSeason 1 • Episode 6
LatestDial in to the fascinating history of the smartphone, from its roots in Morse Code to 2007, when Apple unveiled the first-ever iPhone. Plus, see how the next generation of smartphones will allow us to communicate through them just by thinking.
Take a mind-blowing journey through human history, told through six iconic objects that modern people take for granted, and see how science, invention and technology built on one another to change everything.
Direction
Six objects, six episodes, zero filler—tight structural elegance.
Production
Gorgeous practical recreations that make history tactile.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jim Al-Khalili is a theoretical physicist who once presented a documentary while standing inside a particle accelerator, because apparently green screens are for cowards.
The series aired on PBS in the US but was produced by BBC Four, continuing the grand tradition of British academics explaining everything with slightly embarrassed enthusiasm.
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