Very interesting documentary - bordering on conspiracy - about the confluence of Ayn Rand's philosophy and the cybernetic utopianism that arose in Silicon Valley. It draws together a wide range of threads to make a fairly convincing argument - although I wanted more details in many places, or additional perspectives.Adam Curtis – All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
May 31st, 2011
A series of films about how humans have been colonised by the machines they have built. Although we don't realize it the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computers. This is the story of the dream that rose up in the 1990s that computers could create a new kind of stable world. They would bring about a new kind global capitalism free of all risk and without the boom and bust of the past. They would also abolish political power and create a new kind of democracy through the internet where millions of individuals would be connected as nodes in cybernetic systems – without hierarchy.
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