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This phrase titles a 2015 book by What the Dormouse Said author John Markoff about the history of robotics. A series whose name ends in this four-word phrase describes how the counterculture movement arose from now-discredited theories of nature being a self-regulating system in the section “The Use and Abuse of Vegetational Concepts”. A poem whose title ends in this phrase contains the three parenthetical statements “and the sooner the better!”, “right now, please!” and “it has to be!”, each of which follows the line “I like to think”. That poem’s utopian images include “a cybernetic forest / filled with pines and electronics” and “a cybernetic ecology / where we are free of our labors”. For 10 points, an (*) Adam Curtis BBC documentary and the Richard Brautigan poem it took its name from are both titled “All Watched (10[1])Over By” what four-word phrase? ■END■ (0[5])

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