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Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.

Information is information, not matter or energy.

Cybernetics: or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

It is the thesis of this book that society can only be understood through a study of the messages an...

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We are not the stuff that abides, but patternsthat perpetuate themselves.

The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society

Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence...

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The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intel...

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The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society

Mathematics, which most of us see as the most factual of all sciences, constitutes the most colossal...

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The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength but one belonging to acquies...

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Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any la...

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Norbert Wiener

Mathematician

Born: 1894-11-26

Died: 1964-03-18

Norbert Wiener (26 November 1894 – 18 March 1964) was a U.S. mathematician, and a pioneer in the study of stochastic processes and noise especially in the field of electronic communication and control systems. He coined the term "cybernetics" in his book Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948).More