I believe that he thought he could warn people about where our
technology was taking us in the
1948-52 time period.
At some point, after giving scores of
speeches and writing his warnings in the Saturday Evening Post and
wherever he could, he stopped. Stopped cold.
Norbert Wiener's
Brian/Ken/etal:
In particular I'm wondering where it might be possible to
consult the 1951 edition of Wiener's The Human Use of Human
Beings. Was the entire book altered? Or only a key chapter?
If so, could that chapter be scanned and distributed? Mark
Stahlman refers to an alteration, but
_Hamlet's Mill_ is amazing. It might be interesting to see how it
emerges from the Newtonian and Bergsonian Time chapter of
_Cybernetics_. The book is co-authored with Herta von Dechend (the
Jungianism - I think she brings this along - is a limitation on the
book). _Hamlet's Mill_ has fascinating
Hi Brian-
Thanks so much for your depthful thoughts, compliments and for the link to
your work. I look forward to reading it.
These ideas come from my dissertation work entitled 'The List Serves: Bare
Life in Open Social Order' which I am getting closer and closer to
completing at Concordia
