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Cyberneticists like Stafford Beer sought the balance between large-scale systems and individual autonomy
Tipping the Scale Cyberneticists like Stafford Beer sought the balance between large-scale systems and individual autonomy Kevin Munger March 24, 2022 share Image: A Practical Guide to Walking Through Walls by John Karborn . Courtesy the artist. http://reallifemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Tipping-the-Scale.mp3 Full-text audio version of this essay. “Where the wickedness lies,” cyberneticist Stafford Beer claims in his 1974 book Designing Freedom, “is that ordinary folk are led to think that the computer is an expensive and dangerous failure, a threat to their freedom and their individual
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