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to truth” or - and this turned out to be the really 91 “When I came to the words”: Preserved Smith, The Life and Letters of Martin Luther, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1911) Introduction 67 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018299 violent shift - “from citizen to citizen as equals”? The Church was merely one of many institutions
tually the entire world was pulled into the fire. “In the autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes,” the economist John Maynard Keynes wrote after the Paris Peace Conference settled The Great War, dimly aware that an even deader season lay somewhere in the future in the form o
e system may be pwned before we're quite aware. Such 173 “Democracy”: Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Vital Center: The Politics of Freedom (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1949), 246 174 “Our constitution”: Thucydides, A History of the Peloponnesian War, (Oxford: Oxford University Clarendon Press, 1881),119 119 HOUS
ine power. Looking back on his formative years, before Europe was ground up in the First World War, the powerfully brilliant and sensitive economist John Maynard Keynes bitterly recalled the iron certainty of his set of friends and their confident, diffident arrogance: “We were not aware that civilization was
ish “analog” versus “digital.” Digital signal encoding was entirely compatible with cybernetic thinking—in 33 The Human Use of Human Beings (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954), p. 17-18. 125 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016928 fact, enabling to it. What was constraining to cybernetics was the presumption of an analogy of struc
ovement of goods is largely automated, as are many services. What’s left for humans to do? In 1930—long before the advent of computers, let alone AI—John Maynard Keynes wrote, in an essay called “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren,” that as a result of improvements in productivity, society could prod
ish “analog” versus “digital.” Digital signal encoding was entirely compatible with cybernetic thinking—in 33 The Human Use of Human Beings (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954), p. 17-18. 125 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016345 fact, enabling to it. What was constraining to cybernetics was the presumption of an analogy of struc
ovement of goods is largely automated, as are many services. What’s left for humans to do? In 1930—long before the advent of computers, let alone AI—John Maynard Keynes wrote, in an essay called “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren,” that as a result of improvements in productivity, society could prod
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