Hamilton’s ideas remain powerfully influential in our society — above all, the idea that human beings are helpless chunks of hardware controlled by software programs written in their genetic codes. But, the question is, have we embraced that idea because it is a comfort in a world where everything we do, either good or bad, seems to have terrible unforeseen consequences?… We have embraced a fatalistic philosophy of us as helpless computing machines to both excuse and explain our political failure to change the world.
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace – the latest BBC documentary by Adam Curtis explores how technology limits rather than liberates us, tracing the history of how Ayn Rand’s philosophy permeated Silicon Valley and, eventually, global political and economic structures. (via curiositycounts)
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