All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

Season 1, Episode 2

Episode Title: The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts

Air Date: 2011-05-30

Overview:

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.