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July 2014
The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey - The final in a series of films about how humans have been colonised by the machines we have built, seeing everything in the world today through the eyes of computers. This episode looks at why we humans find this machine vision so beguiling. It argues it is because ...
The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts - The second in a series of programs about how humans have been colonised by the machines we have built. In this episode, the story of how our modern scientific idea of nature, as a self-regulating ecosystem, is actually a machine fantasy. It has little to do with the real complex...
June 2014
Love and Power - A series of programs about how humans have been colonised by the machines we have built. Has the onward march of progress come to a shuddering halt? For most of the 20th century science offered us and our leaders a powerful, optimistic vision: the promise of building a new and better world. That dream fail...
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