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At the beginning of the twentieth century, long-distance travel was only for the military and the very rich. But the invention of commercial aeroplanes and cars changed all that. Travel becameeasier and more affordable, and the world, as a result, became a little bit smaller. In the programme Honey, I shrunk the World James soon discovers that driving a car in those day wasn't as easy as it istoday.
But shrinking the world wasn't just about travel. For the first time in history, we could bring the world to us via the cinema, then the television, and later the computer.

Each day,180,000 people move into a city somewhere on the planet. In Big City, Bright Lights, James sets out to discover how we've created this high-rise, 2477 experiment in urban living. He heads for NEW YORK - tothe top floors of the Woolworth building, once the tallest building in the world. He looks at how, in the last hundred years, our cities have become a lot taller, and how we use electricity to powerthem.

In the twentieth century the teenager was invented. But how? James finds out. First, he looks at fashion. The twentieth century introduced fantastic new fabrics in fantastic new colours, madepossible by the invention of materials like nylon, which were much cheaper and more colourful than materials we used before. Then, he looks at transport. As a teenager, James always dreamed of havinghis own motorbike.
A principios del siglo XX, los viajes de larga distancia era sólo para los militares y los muy ricos. Pero la invención de los aviones comerciales y coches cambió todo eso. Viajesse hizo más fácil y más asequible , y el mundo, como resultado, se convirtió en un poco más pequeño . En el programa de la miel , he encogido a los James mundo pronto descubre que la conducción de uncoche en aquellos días no era tan fácil como lo es hoy.
Pero reducir el mundo no estaba a punto de viajar. Por primera vez en la historia , podríamos traer el mundo a nosotros a través del cine ,...