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Originally Posted by Archaea
Cool quote, what should I read from Wiener?
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I'm quoting him all over the place in a project I'm working on. He wrote a really cool article in the early 1950s that was never published. It was about "atomic cities," or how U.S. cities should be arranged in a certain way so as to survive a nuclear war.
His most notable books in my field are
Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine and
Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society.
He was in a circle of very hard core researchers who explored the possibilities of human-machine interconnection (cybernetics, cyborgs and all of that). Alan Turing, John von Neumann, Claude Shannon, Norbert Wiener--those are all top drawer thinkers.