All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace - Season 1 Episode 3 The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey
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 colonialism's artificial creation of a racial divide and the ensuing slaughter that occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is a source of raw material for computers and cell phones.
- Genre: Documentary, War & Politics
- Studio: BBC Two
- Keyword: man vs machine, civil war, gorilla, technology, dna, revolution, commune, industrialist, mathematical theorem, congo, race politics, silicon valley, progress, computer, rwandan genocide, hiv, genocide, free will, machine, eugenics, selfishness, financial crisis, mankind, imperialism, federal reserve, science and technology, genealogy, altruism, objectivism, self-determination, ecosystem, operating systems, pseudo science, geodesic dome, techno-utopian, new economy, imf, cybernetics, feedback loops, environmental movement, holism, natural order
- Cast: Adam Curtis, Ayn Rand, Stewart Brand, Peder Anker, David Attenborough, Richard Brautigan