The Myth of the Machine, Volume 2Shows that man himself has from the beginning been and still is the central fact of human life today. |
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... Norbert Wiener came increasingly to endow his Golem with the ultimate properties of life . But , second , beneath this magic wish was a more insidiously flattering idea : he who creates life is a God . Hence the very idea of a creative ...
... Norbert Wiener came increasingly to endow his Golem with the ultimate properties of life . But , second , beneath this magic wish was a more insidiously flattering idea : he who creates life is a God . Hence the very idea of a creative ...
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... Norbert Wiener ; and probably no one else contributed more to the early development of this series of inventions . Wiener helped endow the computer with some of the specialized attributes of human intelligence , including the capacity ...
... Norbert Wiener ; and probably no one else contributed more to the early development of this series of inventions . Wiener helped endow the computer with some of the specialized attributes of human intelligence , including the capacity ...
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... Norbert Wiener . But today the grim outlines of the whole system have been laid down , with the corroborative evidence , by a legal observer , Alan F. Westin , as an incidental feature of a survey of the numerous public agencies and ...
... Norbert Wiener . But today the grim outlines of the whole system have been laid down , with the corroborative evidence , by a legal observer , Alan F. Westin , as an incidental feature of a survey of the numerous public agencies and ...
Contents
NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
Copyright | |
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