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Cybernetics / Philosophy of TechnologyNorbert Wiener

Norbert Wiener, the mathematician who invented cybernetics in the 1940s, warned his colleagues about something they hadn't anticipated: systems built to optimize a goal will...

What is the last technology you adopted — and what did it quietly stop you from doing that you never chose to give up?

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