A Curious Discovery: An Entrepreneur's Story

by John S. Hendricks

And in recent years, just such a daydream has begun to fill my idle thoughts. It has two parts, but both revolve around a single theme—and that is to expand the original Discovery vision from impacting millions to billions. By that, I mean: 1. How do we—using both the massive archives we’ve already created plus the latest technology tools and platforms—address the enormous challenge of improving the education of all humans regardless of where they live on the planet? I will look at a potential solution to that challenge in this chapter. 2. How do we—using technology, original content, and new teaching techniques—expand that audience for curiosity-based television from that endemic 25 percent to include the rest of the population? I will use the concluding pages of this book to look at one possible solution, one that combines the digital world of television with the “analog” world of nature.