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Wiener gave scientific teeth to the idea that in the workings of history

many of them (like Wiener) from the worlds of science and technology

Wiener published “Some Moral and Technical

the book is in many ways extraordinarily prescient. Wiener

whereas (as Wiener might have expected) information

as Wiener recognized. When attractive opportunities abound

he applauds Wiener’s belief in the strength of ideas vis-a-vis

whether or not it was apparent to Wiener

Norbert Wiener does a remarkable job of identifying many

…th Lloyd: Wrong, but More Relevant Than Ever It is exactly in the extension of the cybernetic idea to human beings that Wiener’s conceptions missed their target. Judea Pearl: The Limitations of Opaque Learning Machines Deep learning has its own dynamics, it does its own repair...

…-flips per second. Human brains are intricately constructed, the process of millions of years of natural selection. In Wiener’s time, our understanding of the architecture of the brain was rudimentary and simplistic. Since then, increasingly sensitive instrumentation and imaging...

…ook ideas that had long analogized people and devices and generalized them to an applied science by adding that “-ics.” Wiener’s three c’s (command, control, communication) drew on the mathematics of probability to formalize systems (whether biological or mechanical) theorized as...

when I first encountered Wiener’s ideas and met his

computer pioneer John McCarthy disliked Wiener and refused to

Norbert Wiener’s Zhe Human Use of Human Beings was at the cutting edge of