Only a few books stand as landmarks in social and scientific upheaval. Norbert Wiener's classic is one in that small company. Founder of the science of cybernetics—the study of the relationship betwee
The new and rapidly growing field of communication sciences owes as much to NorbertWiener as to any one man. He coined the word for it--cybernetics. In God & Golem, Inc., theauthor concerned himse
Acclaimed one of the "seminal books . . . comparable in ultimate importance to . . . Galileo or Malthus or Rousseau or Mill", Cybernetics was judged by twenty-seven historians, economists,