My favorite TV show ever is "The Prisoner", a limited run spy show done for the BBC. In the context of a secret agent show, it examines brilliantly what happens when our science runs ahead of our morals. We can become slaves to what we can do through science, and it overwhelms us. (In the opening episode, the secret agent smashes a radio that is under outside control, run by people who have decided what he really wants to hear. Instantly, the repair tech arrives on a 1-mph-Cushman cart, slooooowly. He says, "if it's an emergency, we walk.") In a world where the agent's dreams are invaded, he is drugged, kidnapped, toyed with, reprogramed and duplicated, the symbol for the secret island community where he is held is the big-wheeled "boneshaker" bicycle...our science blases forward at Mach Five with what we are
able to do, but our human ability to choose what to do with it shakes, and rattles along like a century old bicycle.
The Prisoner