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The Lonely Robot

Episode 2 of 3

Adam Curtis examines how politicians in the 1990s applied ideas based upon the freedom of the market to the whole of society. The assumption was that people act like simplified robots and were rational calculating machines whose behaviour can be predicted by numbers.

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1 hour

Credits

Role Contributor
Writer Adam Curtis
Producer Lucy Kelsall
Producer Adam Curtis
Executive Producer Stephen Lambert

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