About the Book: The Human Use of Human Beings Cybernetics and Society
In 1950, mathematician-philosopher Norbert Wiener ended this classic book on
the place of machines in society with a warning: "We shall never receive the
right answers to our questions unless we ask the right questions.... The hour is
very late, and the choice of good and evil knocks at our door." Wiener, the
founder of the science of cybernetics—the study of the relationship between
computers and the human nervous system—was widely mislabeled as an advocate for
the automation of human life. As The Human Use for Human Beings reveals, his
vision was much