A conversation with Steve Jobs as he was running NeXT, the company he had founded after leaving Apple.

Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires zooms backwards on the information superhighway to show in vivid detail how youthful amateurs, hippies and self-proclaimed "nerds" accidentally changed the world. The three-hour program chronicles the birth and growth of Silicon Valley's personal computer industry.
Hosted by Bob Cringely, a longtime industry observer, the story unfolds through Bay Area garages, industrial parks and convenience stores to examine the quirky, relentless and profitable adventures of the unlikely 20th-century pioneers who created the miracle products that revolutionized the world.
Triumph of the Nerds features interviews with some of the industry's most recognizable characters, including Microsoft's Bill Gates and Paul Allen, and Apple founder Steve Jobs. For the first time, television tackles the history of this new industry with attention to the culture from which it sprang as well as the culture that it created.
Cringely's book, Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date, was a national best-seller. Having written whimsical commentary for an industry trade publication, Cringely brings tart and insightful observations to the program.
Divided into three discrete one-hour units, TRIUMPH OF THE NERDS is enhanced by comic book graphics, extensive research and Cringely's self-deprecating humor. Exploring the rise of Apple, Microsoft and other companies, the program examines the intra-industry competition and the displacement of corporate giants like IBM. Designed for viewing by youngsters who can't imagine a world without laptops, their struggling parents, the experts, the wannabes, the confused and the unenlightened, TRIUMPH OF THE NERDS puts cyberspace in a social and historical context.

Physicist Dr Helen Czerski takes us on an amazing journey into the science of bubbles. Bubbles may seem to be just fun toys, but they are also powerful tools that push back the boundaries of science.
The soap bubble with its delicate, fragile skin tells us about how nature works on scales as large as solar system and as small as a single wavelength of light. Then there are underwater bubbles, which matter because they are part of the how the planet works. Out at sea, breaking waves generate huge plumes of bubbles which help the oceans breathe.
From the way animals behave to the way drinks taste, Dr Czerski shows how bubbles affect our world in all sorts of unexpected ways. Whether it's the future of ship design or innovative new forms of medical treatment, bubbles play a vital role.

量子力学是描写微观物质的一个物理学分支，与相对论一起被认为是现代物理学的两大基本支柱，许多物理学理论和科学，如原子物理学、固体物理学、核物理学和粒子物理学以及其它相关的学科，都是以量子力学为基础。

　　19世纪末，经典力学和经典电动力学在描述微观系统时的不足越来越明显。量子力学是在20世纪初由马克斯·普朗克、尼尔斯·玻尔、沃纳·海森堡、埃尔温·薛定谔、沃尔夫冈·泡利、路易·德布罗意、马克斯·玻恩、恩里科·费米、保罗·狄拉克、阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦等一大批物理学家共同创立的。透过量子力学的发展，人们对物质的结构以及其相互作用的见解被革命化地改变，同时，许多现象也得以真正地被解释。借助量子力学，以往经典理论无法直接预测的现象，可以被精确地计算出来，并能在之后的实验中得到验证。除透过广义相对论描写的引力外，迄今所有其它物理基本相互作用均可以在量子力学的框架内描写（量子场论）。

　　“量子力学揭密”将会跟随吉姆·阿卡里（Jim Al-Khalili）教授一起探究最准确却又非常令人费解的科学理论——量子力学。彼时正值20世纪初，科学家们刚刚开始探索隐藏在物质内部的秘密。他们发现了一个事物可以同时处于多个位置的领域；在那里，机遇和概率起到主导作用，而现实本身似乎只有在我们对其观察的时候才真正存在。