{"title":"Computers - Cybernetics","description":"\u003cp\u003eSearch our collection of cybernetics books, including \"An Introduction to Cybernetics\" and \"Psycho Cybernetics.\" Discover essential reads in computer science, programming, and more at our online bookstore\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-human-use-of-human-beings-cybernetics-and-society-9780063423190","title":"The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor the 75th anniversary, a new edition of \u003cem\u003eThe Human Use of Human Beings\u003c\/em\u003e--the landmark book that delves into the relationship between humans and computers, and presciently anticipates many contemporary dilemmas surrounding AI technology. 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As \u003cem\u003eThe Human Use for Human Beings\u003c\/em\u003e reveals, his vision was much more complex and interesting, and is more relevant in today's world of AI than anyone could have anticipated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his new introduction, Brian Christian aptly calls Wiener the \"progenitor of contemporary AI-safety discourse.\" Wiener hoped that machines would release people from relentless and repetitive drudgery to achieve more creative pursuits, yet he anticipated the danger of dehumanizing and displacement. His pioneering views on the human-machine relationship as a \"communicative process\" are only more\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003ecrucial now, as we carry in\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eour pockets AI devices that we can literally speak to. His prescient warnings illuminate our contemporary relationships with language, art, and even social media.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Human Use of Human Beings\u003c\/em\u003e examines the implications of cybernetics for education, law, language, science, technology, as Wiener anticipates the enormous impact--in effect, a third industrial revolution--that the computer has had on our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Norbert Wiener\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mariner Books Classics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/12\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 5.20w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780063423190\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian, Brian:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrian Christian\u003c\/strong\u003e is the bestselling author of the acclaimed books \u003cem\u003eThe Most Human Human\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAlgorithms to Live By\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Alignment Problem\u003c\/em\u003e, which have been translated into nineteen languages. A researcher at the University of Oxford, he lives in San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWiener, Norbert:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNorbert Wiener \u003c\/strong\u003ereceived his Ph.D. from Harvard at the age of eighteen and joined the mathematics department at M.I.T. when he was twenty-five. 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Her books have won numerous awards, including the Rene Wellek Prize for the Best Book in Literary Theory in 1998-99 for How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics, and the Suzanne Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship for Writing Machines. She writes on media theory, experimental fiction, literary and cultural theory, science fiction, and contemporary American fiction. She has won two teaching awards, and has held visiting appointments at Princeton, University of Chicago as the Critical Inquiry Visiting Professor, and Institute for Advanced Studies at Durham University UK, among others. 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