The Myth of the Machine: The pentagon of powerHarcourt, Brace & World, 1970 - Technology and civilization |
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... Norbert Wiener even feared this might happen in a not - too - distant future with computers : a point the scenario of the film ' 2001 ' followed up when its infallible space- ship computer , on being crossed , became hostile to its ...
... Norbert Wiener even feared this might happen in a not - too - distant future with computers : a point the scenario of the film ' 2001 ' followed up when its infallible space- ship computer , on being crossed , became hostile to its ...
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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 , Butler even embraced the possibility of a machine's reproducing another machine as at least a remote prospect . " Day by day , " Butler concluded , " the machines are gaining ground upon us ; day by day we are becoming ...
... Norbert Wiener , Butler even embraced the possibility of a machine's reproducing another machine as at least a remote prospect . " Day by day , " Butler concluded , " the machines are gaining ground upon us ; day by day we are becoming ...
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CONTENTS | 3 |
THE STORY OF UTOPIAS 1922 | 7 |
THE GOLDEN DAY 1926 | 46 |
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