User:Yiorgos Bagakis/Essays/Future
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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?