The cybernetic society.
USA. Interdisciplinary research study of cybernetics and the theoretical and social implications of technological change - covers industrialization, employment, systems design, government policy, communication, the computer, science, the arts, education and educational technology, the future, etc. D...
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| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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New York,
Pergamon Press
[1972]
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| Series: | Pergamon unified engineering series ;
15. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; The Cybernetic Society; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. Introduction; References; Chapter 2. Technology in the Industrial Age; PART I THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN ENGLAND; PART II THE ADVENT OF MASS PRODUCTION; PART III THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE COMPUTER; References; Chapter 3. Industrialization, Cybernation and the Working Man; Post-World War II Employment Problems; The Knowledge Industries; The Worker in the United States: 1950-1975; Cybernation and Industry; The White-collar Worker; The Blue-collar Worker.
- The Technological Society, Unemployment and the PoorEngland-Seeds of Social Discord; Economic Theories and Industrial Change; The Laboring Class in Victorian England; Seeds of Environmental Destruction; Early American Patterns of Industrialization; Contemporary Economic Concepts and Unemployment; Structural versus Aggregate-demand Unemployment; Work and Leisure; The Guaranteed Income; References; Chapter 4. Technology and Government; The Winning of Elections; The Maintaining of Government; U rban Transportation; Economic and Social Indicators; Technology Assessment.
- Data Centers and the Issue of PrivacyThe Technological Elite; References; Chapter 5. The Systems Planners; Definition of a System; Classes of Systems; Systems Engineering and Operations Research; Systems Problems and Techniques; Systems Design for Social Systems-Beginnings; A Critical Look at the Systems Approach; References; Chapter 6. Cybernetics
- Control and Communication; Feedback Control; Communication; Telecommunication and the Two-State Code; Information and Choice; Unlike Alternatives; Information and Entropy; The Relevance of Cybernetics; References.
- Chapter 7. Man's Mind and the ComputerThe Creation of Intelligent Beings-Early Concerns; Mental Prodigies and Idiot Savants; What is Intelligence?; The Brain and Neural Networks; Perceptrons; Game-playing machines; Simulation of Human Thought; The Language Machines; Machine Translation; Self-reproducing Machines; Are the Robots Coming?; Mind and Matter; References; Chapter 8. Technology, Science and the Arts; The Two Cultures
- What is Art?; The Relationship of Science to the Arts; Technology and the Arts; Early Interactions Between Technology and Art in the United States and Europe.
- Technology and Art in the 20th CenturyThe Bauhaus; Dadaism and Surrealism; Art in the United States; Electronics and Music; Computers and Music; Computers and the Visual Arts; Computers and Literature; Outlook for the Arts; References; Chapter 9. Technology and Education; Early Developments in Theory and Methods of Learning and Instruction; Educational Theories and Methods in the 19th Century; The Monitorial System; The Psychologizing Influence in 19th Century Education; Theories and Practice of Learning and Instruction in the 20th Century; Educational Technology in the 20th Century.