Tag: cybernetics
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From superorganisms to superintelligences, how studying crabs could reveal that we are unintentionally building an artificial world brain. https://www.noemamag.com/are-we-accidentally-building-a-planetary-brain more ›
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A room-size computer equipped with a new type of circuitry, the Perceptron, was introduced to the world in 1958 in a brief news story buried deep in The New York… more ›
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The society of control marks a historical mutation of power, a redirection of its attention towards the turbulent levels of matter/energy. The emergence of control can be perceived through science, technology,… more ›
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Artificial servants, autonomous killing machines, surveillance systems, and sex robots have been part of the human imagination for thousands of years. Robots have histories that extend far back into the… more ›
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In Analogia, technology historian George Dyson presents a startling look back at the analog age and life before the digital revolution―and an unsettling vision of what comes next. In 1716, the… more ›
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Claude Shannon, American mathematician, a stern but somewhat kind dark look in his eyes, defined information as the measure of novelty or surprise one can expect in a message -… more ›
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The Elegance of Ones and Zeroes » There were four essential prophets whose mathematics brought us into the Information Age: Norbert Wiener, John von Neumann, Alan Turing and Claude Shannon. more ›
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Closing the Loop » at the time, asked me to take over the magazine, I was like, absolutely. This magazine changed my life. This is the biggest story of our… more ›
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Manchurian “The candidate himself became an implementation instrument of the model.” more ›