> "All Watched over by Machines of Loving Grace"

This reminds me of the tycoon's thunderously semi-religious speech from The Network [0], which has aged pretty well for a movie 50 years old.

> The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that... perfect world... in which there's no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock. All necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35DSdw7dHjs&t=0m43s

Absolutely love Adam Curtis. I was first exposed to AWOBMOLG in the basement of the Palais de Tokyo as an idealistic undergrad, and bristled at his claims. Since then it has become one of my favorite pieces of filmmaking. Great soundtrack too.

Is it based on the poem or just named after it? I don’t remember anything particularly libertarian about the poem.

It is just named after the poem, as a reference to the SV ideology of stepping back and letting the machines and the networks decide our future.