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Norbert Wiener: The human use of human beings (1988) 3 stars

The Human Use of Human Beings is a book by Norbert Wiener, the founding thinker …

"... machines which possess some very sinister possibilities ... the automatic chess-playing machine."

3 stars

One of those old-enough books systematically looking at information, technology, and society's structures and making predictions that ring somewhat true and prescient - challenges for intellectual property rights, commodification of knowledge, factory automation and its eventual application to white-collar labor too - and perhaps for being right, it seems like it's not saying much new to us today.