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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.
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2011-06-06
S1E3 — 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.
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Adam Curtis
Self - Narrator (voice)
Ayn Rand
Stewart Brand
Self
Peder Anker
Self
David Attenborough
Self
Richard Brautigan
Self
Bill Clinton
Self
Richard Dawkins
Self
Tord Björk
Self
Daniel Botkin
Self
Barbara Branden
Self
Nathaniel Branden
Self
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