Did anyone see Horizon tonight? There was a "scientist" featured predicting that it's possible to predict the future. Unfortunately I didn't catch his name. He had performed experiments which he claimed proved people could anticipate the emotional content of a picture before it was shown to them.
This sounds to me like a pile of dingo's kidneys - surely?
According to Radio Times, his name was Garth Sundem, a mathematician, offering "a guide to improved decision-making, which, he argues, can be achieved by using simple maths."Originally Posted by exile
No, it wasn't him - he did a segment on the use of maths in decision making, another bloke did the "telling the future" segment. American, psychologist?
Firstly, the programme was shite and secondly the person's name was Dean Radin. Whether those two things are connected I leave up to you8)
Am I the only one noting that Horizon has gone off the boil of late?
Dean Radin. Enough said ...
No you're not - it used to be very exciting required viewing for me as a teenager, but recent editions have been disappointingly lame.Firstly, the programme was shite and secondly the person's name was Dean Radin. Whether those two things are connected I leave up to you
Am I the only one noting that Horizon has gone off the boil of late?
I've taped it, are you saying I maybe shouldn't watch it? ???Firstly, the programme was shite and secondly the person's name was Dean Radin. Whether those two things are connected I leave up to you
Am I the only one noting that Horizon has gone off the boil of late?
taped it? that's soo 20thC! Try using the iplayer...
I would watch it for the first bit (tech geeks being given the odds of pulling) and the brain damaged woman (frontal cortex messed up so she can't make decisions). This woman broke my heart cos she found even the easiest decision near imposible. It just shows that it is our brain that makes us who we are...
But the backwards time shit at the end was just awful. While watching it i thought of 3 killer questions that should have been asked by the programme makers, but they wanted a big "top gun" ending so that is what they wrote.
I'm wanting to get into making more (science and skeptic based) documentaries myself so i watch as many as possible. This was a weak one driven by sensationalism not science.
nathan rae
www.nathanrae.co.uk
Luddites rule! Sky plus on a 40inch telly still beats a 3 inch viewing window on my laptop unfortunately
I like iPlayer though.
Yes, it looks as though the once-excellent Horizon has fallen victim to the dumbing-down virus.
That bit of nonsense from Mannion has always been a standard cry from the woo crowd. The difference between their stuff and modern technology is, once the technology was discovered or developed, it was well understood and, obviously, endlessly repeatable. Their crap usually relies on the same pseudo science it started with, and can't be experimentally verified, though of course they claim it can.
Anyway, it's easy to underestimate the expectations folk long ago had for the future. If not always scientists, at any rate imaginative writers took it for granted that men would fly to the moon one day, long before flight itself was possible.
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