The contributions by
Norbert Wiener in cybernetics and its impact on the human condition serve as the starting point for Information Ethics (IE)2,3.
Hulbert introduces us to 15-year-old
Norbert Wiener and 11-year-old William Sidis, both sons of highly accomplished Russian Jews, who were admitted to Harvard University in the early 20th century.
They were opinions from the late 1940s of one of the pioneers of the information age,
Norbert Wiener, known as the father of cybernetics.
That it could be all these things and not be wholly incoherent is a testament to the genius of its creator, the mathematician and philosopher
Norbert Wiener. In charting the rise, fall, and legacy of cybernetics, Kline attempts to prove, mostly successfully, that it was cybernetics that gave rise to the coinage and conception of our "information age."
The authors favor
Norbert Wiener's quote that "information is not matter; information is not energy." They interpret Wiener, the father of cybernetics, to mean that information is ".
Pedrosa reportedly presented Palatnik with a book by mathematician
Norbert Wiener that became instrumental to Palatnik's turn to kineticism.
Indeed, revolutions in computerization and cybernetic systems maintain a prominent position throughout the book: specifically, inventor
Norbert Wiener's predictions about the impact robotization would have on manufacturing in the United States.
In chapter 1 ("Archiving: Temporality, Storage, and Interactivity in Cybernetics"), the author commences with a definition of cybernetics that was developed by the mathematician
Norbert Wiener and his colleagues at MIT and defines the term as "a science of control or prediction of future action" accordingly (p.