
060 - The Human Use of Human Beings, Part 1
General Intellect Unit
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The Importance of Being a Boy Wonder
The role of the scientist at the time was quite different from what it is now. He seemed to have a pretty high opinion of himself. There's a very, there's a funny thing where his first book, cybernetics, control and communication in the animal and machine comes out at about the same time as Claude Shannon's information theory. But again, like not what he was doing there, not uncommon for this time at all among these people.
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