The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And SocietyHachette Books, 22 mar 1988 - 199 páginas 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 between computers and the human nervous system—Wiener 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. His book examines the implications of cybernetics for education, law, language, science, technology, as he anticipates the enormous impact—in effect, a third industrial revolution—that the computer has had on our lives. |
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I Cybernetics in History | 15 |
II Progress and Entropy | 28 |
Two Patterns of Communicative Behavior | 48 |
IV The Mechanism and History of Language | 74 |
V Organization as the Message | 95 |
VI Law and Communication | 105 |
VII Communication Secrecy and Social Policy | 112 |
VIII Role of the Intellectual and the Scientis | 131 |
IX The First and the Second Industrial Revolution | 136 |
X Some Communication Machines and Their Future | 163 |
XI Language Confusion and Jam | 187 |
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