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An obscure but clearly impression-forming book of poems by Richard Brautigan, and a conspiratorial but nevertheless excellent documentary series by talented but impressionable film-maker Adam Curtis.
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I like to think <br>
(it has to be!)<br>
of a cybernetic ecology<br>
where we are free of our labors<br>
and joined back to nature,<br>
returned to our mammal<br>
brothers and sisters,<br>
and all watched over<br>
by machines of loving grace.
:—Richard Brautigan, from ''All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace'' (1967)}}
An obscure but clearly impression-forming book of poems by Richard Brautigan, and a conspiratorial but nevertheless excellent documentary series by talented but impressionable — and impression-making — film-maker Adam Curtis.
 
Also shorthand for [[internal audit]].
 
And [[Bitcoin]].


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*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_of_Loving_Grace_(poetry_collection) Wikipedia on the poems]
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*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_of_Loving_Grace_(TV_series) Wikipedia on the documentary series]
<Li>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_of_Loving_Grace_(poetry_collection) Wikipedia on the poems]
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I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal
brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace.

—Richard Brautigan, from All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace (1967)

An obscure but clearly impression-forming book of poems by Richard Brautigan, and a conspiratorial but nevertheless excellent documentary series by talented but impressionable — and impression-making — film-maker Adam Curtis.

Also shorthand for internal audit.

And Bitcoin.

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