The Human Use Of Human Beings
cybernetics and society
$39.72
- Paperback
200 pages
- Release Date
21 March 1988
Summary
The Human Use of Human Beings: A Cybernetic Vision
Only a few books stand as landmarks in social and scientific upheaval. Norbert Wiener’s classic is one in that small company. Founder of the science of cybernetics, the study of the relationship between computers and the human nervous system, Wiener was widely misunderstood as one who advocated the automation of human life.
As this book reveals, his vision was much more complex and interesting. He hoped that machines would r…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780306803208 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0306803208 |
| Series: | Da Capo Paperback |
| Author: | Norbert Weiner, Norbert Wiener |
| Publisher: | Hachette Books |
| Imprint: | Da Capo Press Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 21 March 1988 |
| Weight: | 293g |
| Dimensions: | 214mm x 138mm x 18mm |
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About The Author
Norbert Weiner
Norbert Wiener received his Ph.D. from Harvard at the age of eighteen, and joined the mathematics department at M.I.T. when he was twenty-five. Honoured throughout his life with numerous scientific awards, he was the author of two autobiographies, Ex-Prodogy and I Am a Mathematician, as well as several important books and basic papers on the theory and practice of cybernetics.
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