I don't specifically remember Wiener section in Yasha's book, but his book is excellent, so doesn't surprise me. I read Wiener literally 30 years ago, and came back to it last month, I forgot how much I liked it, he was an extraordinary thinker. I'm rereading McLuhan's Understanding Media now, he also was great mind and looked at history of technology very profoundly. I was just saying to someone how all these great thinkers of 20th century were forgotten and shunned aside, Homo economicus became the only determinant in tech development, really, since the dawn of industrialism, and that was never enough, again its Heisenberg's idea of a compass that no longer works. Technology is politics.
I don't specifically remember Wiener section in Yasha's book, but his book is excellent, so doesn't surprise me. I read Wiener literally 30 years ago, and came back to it last month, I forgot how much I liked it, he was an extraordinary thinker. I'm rereading McLuhan's Understanding Media now, he also was great mind and looked at history of technology very profoundly. I was just saying to someone how all these great thinkers of 20th century were forgotten and shunned aside, Homo economicus became the only determinant in tech development, really, since the dawn of industrialism, and that was never enough, again its Heisenberg's idea of a compass that no longer works. Technology is politics.