All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

All three parts of this recent BBC documentary by Adam Curtis are available for free viewing on YouTube. It's worth a look.

The series deals primarily with questions of technology and freedom and weaves together a wonderfully researched and thought out narrative of our history with machines. The influences of a huge range of ideas and theories are considered, from Charles Darwin to Alan Greenspan. I found the parts dealing with international finance to be the most interesting.