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All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
★ 8.3/10•2011•Documentary•War & Politics
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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.

Adam Curtis · Creator

StatusEnded
LanguageEN
First Air DateMay 23, 2011

Episodes

Episode 1 - Love and PowerE160m

Love and Power

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

May 23, 2011

Episode 2 - The Use and Abuse of Vegetational ConceptsE260m

The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts

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.

May 30, 2011

Episode 3 - The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the MonkeyE359m

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 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.

Jun 6, 2011

Actors

Adam Curtis

Adam Curtis

Self - Narrator (voice)

Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand

Stewart Brand

Self

Peder Anker

Self

David Attenborough

David Attenborough

Self

Richard Brautigan

Self

Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton

Self

Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins

Self

Tord Björk

Self

Daniel Botkin

Self

Barbara Branden

Self

Nathaniel Branden

Self

Rachel Carpenter

Self

Jay Forrester

Self

Randall Gibson

Self

Al Gore

Al Gore

Self

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