All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace | Adam Curtis
Episode 1 – Love and Power | Adam Curtis
A critical look at the Ayn Rand‘s influence on American entrepreneurship and inspiration for the new economy led by computerisation of systems.
Episode 2 – The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts | Adam Curtis
The use of vegetational concepts role in the rise of the machines, our belief in the balance of nature, and how the idea of the ecosystem was invented.
Episode 3 – The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey | Adam Curtis
Humankind’s progressive belief in being machines, and how no one believes anymore that the world can be changed for the better.
Technocracy Rising
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace – 2011 | Adam Curtis
A series of films about how humans have been colonised by the machines we have built. Although we don’t realise it, the wa
“All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” is a poem by Richard Brautigan first published in his 1967 collection of the same name, his fifth book of poetry. It presents an enthusiastic description of a technological utopia in which machines improve and protect the lives of humans. The poem has counterculture and hippie themes, influenced by Cold War-era technology. It has been interpreted both as utopian and as an ironic critique of the utopia it describes. It is Brautigan’s most frequently reprinted poem.y we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computers.
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Source: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace – Episode 2
Source: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace – Episode 3
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