All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace is a 2011, three-part documentary made by Adam Curtis, for the BBC. 

The three films trace the emergence of what might be called our current speculative, bio-mechanoid economy. Employing brilliantly cut-up found/archive footage, narrative tightness and horse’s mouth interviews, a world-wide history unfolds, both weird and deeply unsettling.

It is a “buzzing, blooming” evolution involving hippies, computer scientists, heads of state, bankers, liberals, mercenaries, conservatives, authors, biologists, and every stripe of utopian; all of whose irrationally exuberant faith in some version of stability (whether biological, computational, political or ideological) yields transcendental shortsightedness — continually plunging the globe into enslavement and chaos. Ultimately a masterly piece of film making — ingeniously assembled, intimate, frighteningly dark, and jauntily humorous — a staggeringly relevant construction. The horror! Oh the complexity!

1. The Medium and the Message (Adam Curtis blog)
   
2. Ayn Rand and her influence on the Californian Ideology
3. Loren Carpenter Siggraph ‘91 Pong experiment
   
4. Richard Barbrook & Andy Cameron, The Californian Ideology (1995)
5. GBN / Alan Greenspan / Logical positivism / New Economy
6. Pandora's Vox: On Community in Cyberspace (Carmen Hermosillo)
7. Ecosystems, Arthur Tansley
8. Jay Wright Forrester, feedback, MIT News
9. Norbert Wiener: Cybernetics
10. Eugene and Howard Odum: Ecology
11. Buckminster Fuller: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
12. Synergia Ranch commune / Institute of Ecotechnics
13. Richard Brautigan, All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace
14. Systems ecology, George Van Dyne
15. W. D. Hamilton in the Congo
16. George Price, Equation for Altruism
17. John von Neumann
18. The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins