Technocracy Now! Part 2: Exploring Technocracy through Cybernetics

New Books in Systems and Cybernetics by New Books Network

Oct 10, 202267:28Science & Medicine

On part of Technocracy Now, we tell stories of cybernetic technocracies. First, we hear the story of Charles A. McClelland, a liberal political scientists who proposed a cybernetic computer system that claimed to predict...

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