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The Human Use Of Human Beings : Cybernetics And Society

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
eBook, English, 1988
Da Capo Press, New York, 1988
1 online resource
9780786752263, 9781283140171, 0786752262, 1283140179
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Acknowledgments; Preface The Idea of a Contingent Universe; Contents; I Cybernetics in History; II Progress and Entropy; III Rigidity and Learning: Two Patterns of Communicative Behavior; IV The Mechanism and History of Language; V Organization as the Message; VI Law and Communication; VII Communication, Secrecy, and Social Policy; VIII Role of the Intellectual and the Scientis; IX The First and the Second Industrial Revolution; X Some Communication Machines and Their Future; XI Language, Confusion, and Jam; Index