It looks like Adam Curtis has made another must-watch documentary series - 'All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_of_Loving_Grace_%28TV_series%29
http://vimeo.com/57157436
In the first episode, Curtis tracks the effects of Ayn Rand's ideas. It's interesting that she was shunned at the time, but surely and slowly her cult following built up over the decades until Silicon Valley CEO-types lived and breathed her ethos pathos.