BCIG Bookclub: “The Human Use of Human Beings:
Cybernetics and Society”
by Norbert Wiener
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Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical
Board Room (Room 2C116)
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A group dialogue about the book will
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(This event will be webcast.)
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5:30 pm- 7:30 pm February 26, 2009
Few books stand
as landmarks in social and scientific upheaval. This is one of them. 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
automation of human life. As this book reveals, his vision was much more complex
and interesting. He hoped that machines would release people from relentless
and repetitive drudgery in order to achieve more creative pursuits. At the same
time he realized the danger of dehumanizing and displacement. His book examines
the implications of cybernetics for education, law, language, science,
technology, as he anticipates the enormous impact - in effect, a third
industrial revolution - that the computer has had on our lives.
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