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"The debate over whether the Net is good or bad for us fills the airwaves and the blogosphere. But for all the heat of claim and counter-claim, the argument is essentially beside the point: it’s here; it’s everywhere. The real question is, do we direct technology, or do we let ourselves be directed by it and those who have mastered it? “Choose the former,” writes Rushkoff, “and you gain access to the control panel of civilization. Choose the latter, and it could be the last real choice you get to make.” In ten chapters, composed of ten “commands” accompanied by original illustrations from comic artist Leland Purvis, Rushkoff provides cyberenthusiasts and technophobes alike with the guidelines to navigate this new universe."

http://www.orbooks.com/our-books/program/

Posted By: Steve Williams
Sunday, February 27th 2011 at 10:38AM
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Again, Excellent Scholarship author of the Philosophy of Language,

"Cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of the structure of regulatory systems. Cybernetics is closely related to control theory and systems theory. Both in its origins and in its evolution in the second-half of the 20th century, cybernetics is equally applicable to physical and social (that is, language-based) systems."

So can I say, as a layman, that cybernetics has always beeen with ManKind, as the computer is an outgrowth of a Human Mind?

and programing has been going on a long time?

Monday, February 28th 2011 at 8:01AM
powell robert

Jake, haven't read the book, only the material at the link I posted. But I think the point of the book is if we are just passive users of technology, like we have been all these years with TV, then we open ourselves to control, whether we call these people Illuminati or just greedy and powerful. Case in point would be Microsoft/Bill Gates.
Monday, February 28th 2011 at 9:26AM
Steve Williams

Thank you Robert. Here is something about:

The Female Computers of World War II
http://www.topsecretrosies.com/Top_Secret_...

Monday, February 28th 2011 at 2:02PM
Steve Williams