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the 'important information' (1946-1953 human-machine conferences…
the 'important information'
1946-1953 human-machine conferences
Gregory Bateson
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Norbert Wiener
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1948 '
Cybernetics
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Margaret Mead
Walter Pitts
Warren McCulloch
founder
Claude Shannon
Arturo Rosenblueth
Julian Bigelow
John von Neumann
W. Grey Walter
Heinz von Foerster
1960 Paul Baran
packet-switching
proposal
1966
'Future of Technology'
seminar - Licklinder
RUSSIA
1917 Lenin - press censorship
Stalin's death - allow intellectuals debate freely
1964 Brezhnev - control computing
1969 ARPANET
early 1970s
futurology
1973 Bell
"The coming of the post-industrial society"
material goods vs. creation of knowledge
technological determinism + economic determinism
scientific discovery + technological application
opposed Marx: erosion of working class - nullified war between capital & labour
1970 end of cybernetics as universal explanation
1970
Brzezinski
"Between two ages: America's role in the technetronic era"
McLuhanism without McLuhan
objective analysis of post-industrialism
Net introduces a new social system
1977 Marc Porat: information economy study
1980 Alvin Toffler
"the third wave"
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automation transforms, not liquidates labour
Marx against Marx
1980 Jean-Francois Lyotard
'the postmodern condition'
meaning = thing, manageable property
1983 Ithiel de Sola Pool
'technologies of freedom: on free speech in an electronic age'
1980s software patents
information is quantifiable and owned poperty
1977 Apple II
anthropology
mathematics
physiology
physics
WWII - 1970s
'cybernetics moment'
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late 1970s - information revolution in government and corporate planning