02428 a2200289 4500003000800000005001700008007000300025008004100028020002400069040001800093041000900111050002300120100002400143245006400167260004900231300004300280505014500323520134400468650003401812650004401846650004801890650003201938942001501970946000901985999001901994952012502013BJBSDDR20240222142241.0ta250124s2017 nyu 00| 0 eng d a9780393354959 (pbk) bspa cBJBSDDR aeng 14aT 14.5bR542r 20161 aRid, Thomas 93402810aRise of the machines :ba cybernetic history /cThomas Rid. aNew York : b W.W. Norton & Company, c2017. a414 pages : billustration ; c21 cm.  aControl and communication at war -- Cybernetics -- Automation -- Organisms -- Culture -- Space -- Anarchy -- War -- Fall of the machines.  aSpringing from the febrile mind of mathematician Norbert Wiener amid the devastation of World War II, the cybernetic vision underpinned a host of seductive myths about the future of machines. This vision would radically transform the postwar world, ushering in sweeping cultural change. From the Cold War's monumental SAGE bomber defense system to enhanced humans, Wiener's scheme turned computers from machines of assured destruction into engines of brilliant utopias. Cybernetics triggered blissful cults, the Whole Earth Catalog, and feminist manifestos, just as it fueled martial gizmos and the air force's foray into virtual space. As Rid shows, Cybernetics proved a powerful tool for two competing factions-- those who sought to make a better world and those who sought to control the one at hand. In the Bay Area, techno-libertarians embraced networked machines as the portal to a new electronic frontier: a peaceful, open space of freedom. In Washington, DC, cyberspace provided the perfect theater for dominance and war. Meanwhile the future arrived secretly in 1996, with Moonlight Maze, dawn of a new age of digital state-on-state espionage. That "first cyberwar" ... went on for years-- and indeed has never stopped. In our long-promised cybernetic future, the line between utopia and dystopia continues to be disturbingly thin 4aCibernética9824xHistoria  4aTecnología xAspectos sociales 94783 4aAutomatización xAspectos sociales911264 4aMaquinariaxHistoria934536 2lcccBKn0 idpf  c120568d120568 00102lcc40708HUaBJBbBJBcHUd2024-01-25l0oT 14.5 R542r 2016p00000174481r2024-01-25 00:00:00t1w2024-01-25yBK