Series
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
DocumentaryWar & Politics
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.
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Seasons & episodes
1Love and Power23 May 2011 · 60m · ★ 9.0In the first episode, Curtis tracks the effects of Ayn Rand's ideas on American financial markets, particularly via the influence on Alan Greenspan.
2The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts30 May 2011 · 60m · ★ 10.0This 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.
3The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey6 Jun 2011 · 59m · ★ 10.0This 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.
Details
- Created by
- Adam Curtis
- First aired
- 23 May 2011
- Last aired
- 6 Jun 2011
- Status
- Ended
- Language
- English
- Network
- BBC Two
- Episodes
- 3
- Votes
- 55 on TMDB
Cast
Adam CurtisSelf - Narrator (voice)
Ayn Rand- SStewart BrandSelf
- PPeder AnkerSelf
David AttenboroughSelf- RRichard BrautiganSelf
Bill ClintonSelf
Richard DawkinsSelf- TTord BjörkSelf
- DDaniel BotkinSelf
- BBarbara BrandenSelf
- NNathaniel BrandenSelf
- RRachel CarpenterSelf
- JJay ForresterSelf
