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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.

Writing:
  • Adam Curtis
  • Lucy Kelsall

Stars:
Release Date: 2011-05-23
Seasons: 1
TMDb: 8.3/10
  • Country: GB
  • Language: English

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