When, leading up to the twentieth century, Western society found itself a new object of worship-science and its attendant technologies-it assumed that by following the immutable laws of nature, one could predict and govern the future. In his quartet Pandora's Box, Adam Curtis (best known for The Century of the Self and The Power of Nightmares) explores the Mechanical Age's dubious concept that we might view “society as a giant rational machine,” and traces the reign of technocracy as it plies great overarching theories of social design in consort with technological advance. In the failed models of the Soviet Union's Five Year Plans we see in Part One: The Engineer's Plot, we can predict the plot of many a film in our series.