The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society - Softcover

Wiener, Norbert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0306803208 ISBN 13: 9780306803208

Verlag: Da Capo Press, 1988

Inhaltsangabe

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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Norbert Wiener received his Ph.D. from Harvard at the age of eighteen, and joined the mathematics department at M.I.T. when he was twenty-five. Honored throughout his life with numerous scientific awards, he was the author of two autobiographies, Ex-Prodogy and I Am a Mathematician, as well as several important books and basic papers on the theory and practice of cybernetics.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Da Capo Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1988
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0306803208
• ISBN 13: 9780306803208
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 199
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