Computers Stealing Our Dreams

Ah, to be in England now that Adam Curtis has a new documentary series . . .All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace will premiere in a couple weeks on the BBC, and by all accounts is a sort of meta-critique of digital society and its proponents and heroes.  (About time, too.)The most intriguing of the series' various theses is that computers have stolen all our big dreams.   Computers and systems theory showed that everything was a component in a system, right?" . . . people started to...