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FUTURE MAP by Brian Holmes

Can any creator play a significant game with his own creature? (Norbert Wiener, 1964) Wiener believes: yes (and the creature may win).

December 1944, a group formed by scientists John von Neumann and Howard Aiken to study the intersection between neurology and engineering - first named Teleological Society then Circular Causal and feedback Mechanisms and finally summed up as Cybernetics (term coined by Wiener in 1947).

Von Neumann - anti-communist, mathematical genius among the central scientists involved in the creatiion of the atomic bomb - Opposed Wiener's anti-military stance - some believe that he was a main influence for Kubric's Dr. Stranglove.

Early 1940s: Wiener started working on an anti-aircraft predictor project - pilot and gunner as servomechanisms - machinelike humans and intelligent, humanlike machines.

Understanding surveillance through a systematic unity of man and machine. surveillance ----> not as something purely negative...

Key question from Holmes: Can we play a significant game with the cybernetic society that has created us?

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	* Can any creator play a significant game with his own creature? (Norbert Wiener, 1964) Wiener believes: yes (and the creature may win).		* Can any creator play a significant game with his own creature? (Norbert Wiener, 1964) Wiener believes: yes (and the creature may win).