The Future Past: Cybernetics as Requiem

The Pickering book is useful well beyond its purposes for this class so I highly recommend reading the whole thing for those of you who are inclined towards alternative futures. Pickering has in this book sketches of some of the most interesting and visionary thinkers of the 20th century. Further he attempts to identify what animates there experiments in reality.

However for the purposes of our class please read page 1-37, 139-172, 173-182, 215-220, 253-268, 302-307, 379-402.
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