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Title: The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society by Norbert Wiener ISBN: 0-306-80320-8 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: April, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Another Wiener Gem
Comment: Norbert Wiener was a child prodigy and Professor of Mathematics at MIT from 1919 until his death in 1964. He invented the science of cybernetics (look it up in the dictionary) and the guided missile but refused to help the military during the cold war. This volume includes an open letter published in the January, 1947 Atlantic Monthly magazine entitled "A Scientist Rebels" by Norbert Wiener. An introduction by Wiener biographer Steve J. Heims provides a context for Wiener's works.

If you are at all interested in cybernetics, and particularly interested in the effects it is having and will have on society, this book is must reading. Of course, this book does not approach Wiener's "God & Golem, Inc."(reviewed elsewhere in Amazon.com) for sheer brilliance, but then, what does, except perhaps the "Bahir."

Rating: 5
Summary: intriguing ideas made plain
Comment: For those of us who cannot grasp the mathematical, technical version of Wiener's theory of messages in _Cybernetics_, this book is a wonderful stand-in. Wiener wrote this entirely equationless text as a populariztion of his ideas about humans and machines. this book is a fascinating piece of philosophy and sociology also, as Wiener expands his theories and brings them to bear on history, journalism etc. He never loses his scientific perspective though; this gives his writing and ideas a clarity freshness that is uncommon in theoretical writings about society. This is a great and important book

Rating: 5
Summary: prophetic book
Comment: where could i find a reedited french traduction of this book published in 62 in france,second hand also ?

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