Review: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
Part One: Love and Power
BBC Two, Monday 23 May
“A series of films about how humans have been colonised by the machines they have built. Although we don’t realise it, the way we see everything in the world today is through the eyes of the computers.”
Adam Curtis’s opening premise was that this was “a story about the rise of the machines” (no, not Terminator 3); how it was believed that computers and non-hierarchical networks could replace systems of political control to produce stable and self-regulating social order, a new kind of global capitalism free of all risk and without the boom and bust of the past.
What Curtis gives us is a dissection of human follies, belief systems that could be enabled by technology, how they failed and how they continue to fail… …
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