All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

Storyline

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.

First Aired

2011-05-23
Last Aired

2011-06-06
Creator

Adam Curtis
Genre

Documentary, War & Politics
Seasons

1
Episodes

3
Status

Ended
Language

English
Network

BBC Two

Keywords:

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Season 1

1. Love and Power

In the first episode, Curtis tracks the effects of Ayn Rand's ideas on American financial markets, par...More

In the first episode, Curtis tracks the effects of Ayn Rand's ideas on American financial markets, particularly via the influence on Alan Greenspan.Less

2011-05-23

2. The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts

This episode investigates how machine ideas such as cybernetics and systems theory were applied to nat...More

This 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.Less

2011-05-30

3. The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey

This programme looked into the selfish gene theory which holds that humans are machines controlled by ...More

This 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.Less