Adam Curtis (2011). S1.E1 'All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace: Love and Power'
https://www.youtube.com/embed/I6EBpLfLHCA
Transcript: "ever since the 1970s computer utopians in California believed that if human beings were linked by webs of computers then together they could create their own kind of order it was a cybernetic dream which said that the feedback of information between all the individuals connected as nodes in the network would work to create a self-stabilising system the world would be stable yet everyone would be heroic [Ayn] Randan beings completely free to follow their desires" Adam Curtis (2011). https://www.youtube.com/embed/I6EBpLfLHCA?start=437&end=504 Transcript: "In 1991 a leading computer engineer from California gave a dramatic demonstration he was called Loren Carpenter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren_Carpenter he invited hundreds of people to a large shed on each seat was a small paddle and in front of them was a giant screen we told them nothing for a while we just left them left the things on the seats and people would pick this up and look at it and say what's that and then somebody know noticed that there's little red and green dots up there on the screen and this is red and green so maybe that has something to do with that that would be that okay there I am and when that happened the room erupted just totally spontaneous we didn't say anything Carpenter then began an experiment he projected the early computer game pong each half of the audience jointly controlled the bat on their side of the screen if an individual held up red on their paddle a computer sensor picked it up and the bat on the screen went down if they held up green it went up but they had to operate it together when the game is being played and the ball is going back and forth if it's down here and it's headed that way some people are going to have to show red to keep it from going all the way to the top if everybody just showed green it would slam up to the top and the ball would miss so something happened in that group of people where some decided to show green and some decided to show red to cause it to stop in the right place and we have no idea what did that Carpenter believed that what he had created was a model of a society where there was no hierarchy where everyone made their own decisions without guidance yet because they were linked by the machines out of it came a stability and an order so they're all acting as individuals because each one of them can decide what they're going to do they have total freedom about what they decide to do but there's an order there's a an order that emerges that gives them a kind of a of an amiea like effect where they're they Surge and and they play it was kind of in the nature of an experiment I wanted to see if no hierarchy existed at all what would happen and what did happen they formed a um a kind of a a a um a subconscious consensus." https://www.youtube.com/embed/I6EBpLfLHCA?start=508&end=688 Bibliography: Crossley-Holland, D. (2011). 'Love and Power'. A. Curtis, Ed. & Trans. 'All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace'. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1958137/
