All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

★ 8.3•2011•1 Seasons•ANIME

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

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

Rachel Carpenter

Self

Jay Forrester

Self

Randall Gibson

Self

Episodes

Season:

1. 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.

Aired: 5/23/2011

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.