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The Human Use of Human Beings is a landmark book that delves into the relationship between humans and computers, and presciently anticipated many contemporary dilemmas surrounding AI technology.
In 1950, mathematician-philosopher Norbert Wiener wrote in 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 more complex and interesting. Wiener hoped that machines would release people from relentless and repetitive drudgery to achieve more creative pursuits, yet he anticipated the danger of dehumanizing and displacement. The Human Use of Human Beings examines the implications of cybernetics for education, law, language, science, technology, as Wiener anticipates the enormous impact-in effect, a third industrial revolution-that the computer has had on our lives.
Afterword ( 1970) by Walter Rosenblath. Some underlining to text in pen.
Avon paperbacks US EDITION.
