Season 1 (2011)

Love and Power
9.0

May 23, 2011

In the first episode, Curtis tracks the effects of Ayn Rand's ideas on American financial markets, particularly via the influence on Alan Greenspan.

The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts
10.0

May 30, 2011

This episode investigates how machine ideas such as cybernetics and systems theory were applied to natural ecosystems, and how thi...Read more

The Monkey in the Machine and the Machine in the Monkey
10.0

June 6, 2011

This programme looked into the selfish gene theory which holds that humans are machines controlled by genes which was invented by ...Read more