Try to track down How We Got To Now (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;show&#x2F;how-we-got-now&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.pbs.org&#x2F;show&#x2F;how-we-got-now&#x2F;</a>), it was a science series PBS aired a couple years ago and it&#x27;s absolutely fantastic.  It&#x27;s very much in the style of Connections and follows how one invention led to another and another, etc.  I&#x27;m pretty sure I remember reading the producers say they wanted to make a spiritual successor to Connections.