Adam Curtis’ second film in the “The Trap: What Happened to Our Dreams…” was shown on BBC 2 tonight. Television at it’s best.
There’s lots I need to think about – to what extent has democracy been replaced by the free-market? How do the metrics we use to “measure” behaviour determine behaviour?
I’ve heard it said that you can see the evolution of the microprocessor through the increasing complexity of architecture it allows, for instance the work of Frank Gehry. Similarly, have our models of human behaviour been necessarily simplistic and can we expect them to improve with increasing computing power? Or is this a flawed and dangerous endeavour?
I’ll give it all some more thought…
