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All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts

E2    May 30, 2011
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 attempt to build societies without central control, self organising networks built of people, based on a fantasy view of nature.
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Cast of The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts
  • Adam CurtisSelf - Narrator (voice)
  • Stewart BrandSelf
  • Peder AnkerSelf
  • David AttenboroughSelf
  • Richard BrautiganSelf
  • Bill ClintonSelf
  • Richard DawkinsSelf
  • Tord BjörkSelf
  • Daniel BotkinSelf
  • Barbara BrandenSelf
  • Nathaniel BrandenSelf
  • Rachel CarpenterSelf
  • Jay ForresterSelf
  • Randall GibsonSelf
  • Al GoreSelf
  • Molly HollenbachSelf
  • Kevin KellySelf
  • John McCaskeySelf
  • Joan MitchellSelf
  • Kevin O'ConnorSelf
  • Keniche OhmaeSelf
  • Steward PickettSelf
  • Kathleen PriceSelf
  • Stephen RoachSelf
  • Robert RubinSelf
  • Michael RuseSelf
  • James SchwartzSelf
  • Peter SchwartzSelf
  • Joseph StiglitzSelf
  • Dave SwiftSelf
  • Peter J. TaylorSelf
  • Alvin TofflerSelf
  • Fred TurnerSelf
  • Loren CarpenterSelf

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