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061 - The Human Use of Human Beings, Part 2

General Intellect Unit

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The Fascist Mentality of the Lab Director

"I have a lot of comments about sort of like the bets that wiener makes and the way things actually turned out I don't know if this is the right place to talk about them," he says. "He talks in this book about how uh the the engineer or the scientist this sort of technician of knowledge um is becoming ever moresort of like an operator of machines ... He points out a very real problem thereUh but he doesn't really anticipate the quote unquote solution we arrived at which is that  the tech broke capitalist becomes the universal human because capital is universal"

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