S01E01 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.
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
S01E02: 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.
Overview
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.
Episodes
S01E02 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...
S01E03 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...
Cast
Adam Curtis
Self - Narrator (voice)
Ayn Rand
Stewart Brand
Self
Peder Anker
Self
David Attenborough
Self
Richard Brautigan
Self
Bill Clinton
Self
Richard Dawkins
Self
Tord Björk
Self
Daniel Botkin
Self
Barbara Branden
Self
Nathaniel Branden
Self
