Norbert Wiener's 1949 warning: the machine age is a struggle against our intelligence limits
pickover · x · 2026-10-12
A timeless quote from cybernetics founder Norbert Wiener's 'The Human Use of Human Beings': the future will be a demanding struggle against the limits of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock served by robot slaves. Wiener's long-lost 1949 'Machine Age' essay keeps resonating in today's AI era.
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