Sunday, October 3, 2010

Norbert Weiner - Man, Machines, and the World About

- Wiener’s cybernetics research was a product of Bush’s military-industrial complex
- Beginning of terminology such as "cyborg" and "cyberspace"
- Modern usage of terms: input, output, feedback as applied to humans rather than only machines
- studied "communications and control in the animal and machine."
- worked on WWII projects
- changing notions of SELF vs. SYSTEM
- against military funding

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