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et Wiener emerge as the ghost at the banquet". In Stewart Brand's view, "revisiting pioneer thinking is perpetua

ort of thankless task. It will happen indirectly if we focus the book on the issues of today, and let Wiener emerge as the ghost at the banquet". In Stewart Brand's view, "revisiting pioneer thinking is perpetually useful. And it gives a long perspective that invites thinking in decades and centuries about the

d science philanthropist, who, in the abstract for his essay, writes: "An interesting cultural evolution is happening in the AI research community. Wiener's original warnings were buried for 50+ years, only to re-emerge within a small community of 'dissidents,' and are now slowly—and very encouragingl

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nding Media: The Extensions of Man (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1964), p.26. keEffect involves the . . . of information movement.' A A A 9. Stuart Brand, correspondence. AceAll thataTMs traceably ... except through effects.' A A J.. Heinz von Foerster, aceLogical Structure of Environment and Its Inte

ooks: The Hidden Dimension (New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1966) and The Silent Language (New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1959). A A 31 Wiener, op. cit., p. 325. kenew concepts of .. . and of society.' A A 14. Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World (New York: The Free Press, 1

window into the cold room. Wiping it off, I saw “the” computer. I fell in love. Later, in the Fall of 1967, I went to Menlo Park to spend time with Stewart Brand, whom I had met in New York in 1965 when he was a satellite member of the USCO group of artists. Now, with his wife Lois, a mathematician, he was pre

at our door.” In the wake of advances in unsupervised, self-improving machine learning, a small but influential community of thinkers is considering Wiener’s words again. In Deep Thinking, John Brockman gathers their disparate visions of where AI might be taking us. The fruit of the long history of Broc

window into the cold room. Wiping it off, I saw “the” computer. I fell in love. Later, in the Fall of 1967, I went to Menlo Park to spend time with Stewart Brand, whom I had met in New York in 1965 when he was a satellite member of the USCO group of artists. Now, with his wife Lois, a mathematician, he was pre

at our door.” In the wake of advances in unsupervised, self-improving machine learning, a small but influential community of thinkers is considering Wiener’s words again. In Deep Thinking, John Brockman gathers their disparate visions of where AI might be taking us. The fruit of the long history of Broc