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Play S1 E1We have been colonised by the machines we have built. Although we don't realise it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computers.
Cast: Adam Curtis, Ayn Rand, Stewart Brand
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Season 1
3 episodes
1. Love and PowerIn the first episode, Curtis tracks the effects of Ayn Rand's ideas on American financial markets, particularly via the influence on Alan Greenspan.CC1 h 0 minMay 23, 2011
2. The Use and Abuse of Vegetational ConceptsThis episode investigates how machine ideas such as cybernetics and systems theory were applied to natural ecosystems, and how this relates to the false idea that there is a balance of nature. Cybernetics has been applied to human beings to attempt to build societies without central control, self organising networks built of people, based on a fantasy view of nature.CC1 h 0 minMay 30, 2011
3. The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the MonkeyThis programme looked into the selfish gene theory which holds that humans are machines controlled by genes which was invented by William Hamilton. Adam Curtis also covered the source of ethnic conflict that was created by Belgian colonialism's artificial creation of a racial divide and the ensuing slaughter that occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is a source of raw material for computers and cell phones.CC59minJun 6, 2011
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We have been colonised by the machines we have built. Although we don't realise it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computers.
Creators and cast
- Created by
- Adam Curtis
- Studio
- BBC
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English
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