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1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 min. 3 sec.) ; 314732294 bytes |
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All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace is a powerful, provocative three-part series from celebrated filmmaker Adam Curtis (The Power of Nightmares), which argues that humans have unwittingly been colonised by the machines that they have built, seeing everything in the world today through the eyes of computers.Episode 1: Love and PowerA dream rose up in the 1990s that computers could create a new kind of stable world, bringing 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.This episode tells the story of two perfect worlds. One is the small group of disciples around the novelist Ayn Rand in the 1950s. They 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. They were joined by Alan Greenspan who became convinced that the computers were creating a new kind of stable capitalism. But the dream of stability in both worlds would be torn apart by two dynamic human forces: love and power. (From the UK) (Documentary Series) (Part 1 of 3) PG CC |
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Broadcast 2011-10-18 at 20:30:00 |
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Classification: PG |
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Computers and civilization.
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Democracy -- Economic aspects.
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Greenspan, Alan, 1926-.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Rand, Ayn.
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Social Darwinism.
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Streaming video
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Brand, Stewart, contributor
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Branden, Barbara, contributor
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Branden, Nathaniel, contributor
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Carpenter, Loren, contributor
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Carpenter, Rachel, contributor
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Curtis, Adam, director
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Kelly, Kevin, contributor
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McCaskey, John, contributor
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Mohamad, Mahatin, contributor
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O'Connor, Kevin, contributor
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Ohmal, Keniche, contributor
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Rubin, Robert, contributor
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Schwartz, Peter, contributor
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Stiglitz, Joseph, contributor
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Toffler, Alvin, contributor
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Wallace, Mike, contributor
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