A series of films about how humans 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

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The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey

3/3 Why do humans find the machine vision so beguiling - does it excuse our failure?

Mon 6 Jun 2011 21:00 BBC Two except Northern Ireland (Analogue), Wales (Analogue)

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  • Episode 2 - The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts

    Episode 2 - The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts

    The story of how our modern scientific idea of nature, the self-regulating ecosystem, is actually a machine fantasy. It has little to do with the real complexity of nature. It is based on cybernetic ideas that were projected on to nature in the 1950s by ambitious scientists. A static machine theory of order that sees humans, and everything else on the planet, as components - cogs - in a system.

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    Adam Curtis' Blog

    Adam Curtis is a documentary film maker, whose work includes The Power of Nightmares, The Century of the Self, The Mayfair Set, Pandora's Box, The Trap and The Living Dead.

    Adam writes: "This is a website expressing my personal views – through a selection of opinionated observations and arguments. I’ll be including stories I like, ideas I find fascinating, work in progress and a selection of material from the BBC archives."

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  • Episode 1 - Love and Power

    Episode 1 - Love and Power

    The story of two perfect worlds. One is the small group of disciples around the novelist Ayn Rand in the 1950s who saw themselves as a prototype for a future society where everyone could follow their own selfish desires. The other is the global utopia that digital entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley set out to create in the 1990s.

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