Adam Curtis
Self - Narrator (voice)
TV 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.
Top cast
Ayn Rand
SB
Stewart Brand
Self
PA
Peder Anker
Self
David Attenborough
Self
RB
Richard Brautigan
Self
Bill Clinton
Self
Richard Dawkins
Self
TB
Tord Björk
Self
DB
Daniel Botkin
Self
BB
Barbara Branden
Self
NB
Nathaniel Branden
Self
Creative team
Adam Curtis (Creator)
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Episodes
3 Episodes
011. 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.
022. 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.
033. 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.