Quote of the day by pioneer of cybernetics Norbert Wiener: 'The automated machine is the economic equivalent of slave labour' — foreshadowing the displacement of human labor in the years to come
For as long as humanity has envisioned a future co-existing with machines, there have been fears that labor could be displaced. These fears first sparked during the Industrial Revolution in the 1800s, but have continued in the years since. Most recently, the rise of generative AI has raised these fears once again.
Rage against the machine
The American mathematician Norbert Wiener pioneered cybernetics and summarized his thoughts on the subject in his famous 1948 book 'Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine'.
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Cybernetics was a branch of science that studied the mechanisms of control in animals and machines, focusing on feedback loops, self-regulation,...
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