Curtis (2011): All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace

Synargia Commune → ecotechnics
Steward Brandt: ~they felt that computers liberated them and they will use computers to liberate everybody. A self-regulating system w/o the old corruption of power, based on the natural order.
Richard Braudian: All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace: cybernetic ecology where we are free from our labour.
The doomstay machine: global environmental crisis
Forrester → Club of Rome → Brakedown of world society in the beginning of the next century. → Limits to Growth. → Seem to transcend politics. → Stockholm: first conference on World International Crisis. → The World as a System. → Idea of nonpolitical management. → Give up growth, create a steady state.
South Africa: Holism. Everybody has their proper place. General ??? coined the world holism. "The abuse of vegetational concepts."
Buzz of power: "like spyware".

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