Michael, David and Adam discuss the remarkably prophetic Blake’s Seven episode “Death Watch.” Subjects discussed include the doppelganger, desensitization, war as entertainment, vicarious fulfillment, mind control, virtual reality, global brain, organic computering, posthumanism, collectivism, orchestrated chaos, why good fails, learning from evil, and much more…
Program References
ArpaNet
Artificial Intelligence
Virtual Reality
Technotopia
Simulacrum
Hyperreality
Authenticity
Akrasia
Voyeurism
Scopophilia
Saturnalia
Bacchanalia
Bread and Circuses
Aestheticization of Violence
Collectivism
Group Think
Consensus Trance
Communitarianism
Utopian Socialism
Network (Movie)
Looker (Movie)
Logan’s Run (Movie)
Westworld (Movie)
Android (Movie)
Equilibrium (Movie)
THX 1138 (Movie)
2112 (Rush)
Brave New World
The Questor Tapes
Wreck of the Titan
Things to Come (H. G. Wells)
Locksley Hall (Tennyson)
Hikikomori
Ivan Pavlov
Radical Behaviorism
Applied Behavior Analysis
MK Ultra
Jose Delgado
Ewen Cameron
Transhumanism
Regina Dugan
Lawrence Krauss
Utopinaism
Walden Two
Dystopia
Sophia (AI Godmother)
Cyborg Future
Quantum Computing
Quayside Toronto
Indoctrination
Governmentality
Total Institution
Democide
Death by Government
The Enemy is Us
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
What Computers Still Can’t Do
Why the Mind Is Not a Computer
More Guns, Less Crime (Book)
More Guns, Less Crime (Vids)
