All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace - Season 1 Episode 2 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.
- Year: 2011
- Country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Documentary, War & Politics
- Studio: BBC Two
- Keyword: man vs machine, civil war, gorilla, technology, dna, revolution, commune, industrialist, mathematical theorem, congo, race politics, silicon valley, progress, computer, rwandan genocide, hiv, genocide, free will, machine, eugenics, selfishness, financial crisis, mankind, imperialism, federal reserve, science and technology, genealogy, altruism, objectivism, self-determination, ecosystem, operating systems, pseudo science, geodesic dome, techno-utopian, new economy, imf, cybernetics, feedback loops, environmental movement, holism, natural order
- Director: Adam Curtis
- Cast: Adam Curtis, Ayn Rand, Stewart Brand, Peder Anker, David Attenborough, Richard Brautigan
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