Responding to a need to make his revolutionary new theories on information science and machine control accessible to a broader public, the Hungarian-born mathematician and child prodigy (who received his Ph.D. from Harvard at the age of 18), wrote The Human Use of Human Beings to elaborate on the relationship between cybernetics and the greater social ecology. In this book the electronical engineer and communications expert turns to the sociology of human dynamics to formulate a theory for how human beings will come to interact and co-exist with computers.
And in other news, Rupert just turned seventeen. I wonder how he’s doing.
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Jon Husband 04.18.07 at 11:57
Skirv is delightfully clear about who he is and who he isn’t, with hints at other layers that he accepts to be explored as “he” unfolds.
Frank Paynter 04.18.07 at 3:13
I thought that was a great site when I ran across it.
madame l. 04.18.07 at 3:54
wait, i’m confused. aren’t y’all talking about norbert weiner?
madame l. 04.18.07 at 4:01
oops, i just looked it up. spelling error. he ain’t no lenny kravitz. yes, i read that book (not on art’s list btw) in my early 20s, back in the day. (no relation) 1 litre de coca…. must sleep, cybernetizens….
“he used to knock me out until his face broke out uh huh huh…..” mass ave bridge.
Frank Paynter 04.18.07 at 4:44
nighty-night big leg… I gots 3 child prodgideez in that post. Old Norbert showed up, and a friend has been looking at cybernetics so i just included him… Skirv showed up and I loved his wild and open and free self on the net… then of course there was Rupert. Now I could have included information on the John Hersey novel titled the same as the post, and I coulda hooked this back to Joshua Bell somehow, but I just slapped her up there, messy transitions and all, in the best spirit of who-gives-a-heck bloggering. Sorry for any confusion.