About this title: Only a few books stand as landmarks in social and scientific upheaval. Norbert Wiener's classic is one in that small company. Founder of the science of cyberneticsthe study of the relationship between computers and the human nervous systemWiener was widely misunderstood as one who advocated the automation of human life. As this book reveals, his vision was much more complex and interesting. He hoped that machines would release people from relentless and repetitive drudgery in order to achieve more creative pursuits. At the same time he realized the danger of dehumanizing and displacement ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780306803208ISBN:0306803208
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Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. SM TB; light wear, tsmall area on upper front cover peeled, age discoloration. 288 p.; index, references read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780306803208ISBN:0306803208
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: DA CAPO PR
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780306803208ISBN:0306803208
Description: New. Only a few books stand as landmarks in social and scientific upheaval. Norbert Wiener's classic is one in that small company. Founder of the science of cybernetics--the study of the relationship betwee. read more
"A brilliant, wild little book from a polymath of prodigious proportions, it summarizes his seminal and baffling Cybernetics (1948) and extends an early critique of the information society. Written amid postwar froth, Wiener vaults a theory of communication and control meant to help stabilize any agent (quantum, chemical, biological, human, mechanical, social) into a sweeping philosophically informed lattice of "communal information." A must read for anyone interested in cold war history, philosophy, and politics of information science, technology, and society."
"The first important contribution to cybernetics, maybe laid the foundation of it. A visionist and scientist who tried to merge the Humanities with the information science. He was prodromus of semiotics and of a language theory as the most important keys for the hermeneutics of social and natural phenomena."
"A prominent mathematician (and polymath) tries to take the notion of feedback loops and use it as a metaphor to understand a large number of social and technological problems. What is surprising is how far Wiener gets. Written in 1950, this book delves into teleportation, entomology, ponerology, prosthetic sense organs, military espionage, patent law, the art market, and the future of computing. A little nutty but surprisingly prescient, it lays out much of the intellectual groundwork for our information-based society. Weird waters run deep, apparently. Good for at least two cocktail parties' worth of conversation."
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