Giles Slade is the author of "Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America." “FROM Counterculture to Cyberculture” by Fred Turner is at times a difficult read. The reporter-turned-academic ...

I’ve been preoccupied lately with thoughts of marauding broomsticks, genies in bottles, and monkey’s paws. All are literary images the scientist Norbert Wiener used to make the point that we fool ...

__1894: __Norbert Wiener is born in Columbia, Missouri. A child prodigy, he goes on to become one of the 20th century's most famous mathematicians and the founder of the discipline of cybernetics, the ...

Cybernetic theory-what possible relevance can it have for public administration? E. Sam Overman and Donna T. Loraine emphasize its usefulness in decision making and control in the public sector. Their ...

In the red corner: the latter-day apostles of the church of Ned Ludd who denounce cyberculture as a vampiric organism that has sucked the lifeblood out of the film industry, the music business and ...

I’ve been preoccupied lately with thoughts of marauding broomsticks, genies in bottles, and monkey’s paws. All are literary images the scientist Norbert Wiener used to make the point that we fool ...