We 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.
- Created by
- Adam Curtis


TV series
We 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.
1 season · 3 episodes

S1 E1Love and Power
May 23, 201160 min
In the first episode, Curtis tracks the effects of Ayn Rand's ideas on American financial markets, particularly via the influence on Alan Greenspan.
S1 E2The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts
May 30, 201160 min
This episode investigates how machine ideas such as cybernetics and systems theory were applied to natural ecosystems, and how this relates to the false idea that there is a balance of nature. Cybernetics has been applied to human beings to
S1 E3The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey
Jun 6, 201159 min
This programme looked into the selfish gene theory which holds that humans are machines controlled by genes which was invented by William Hamilton. Adam Curtis also covered the source of ethnic conflict that was created by Belgian coloniali