Celestial Weasel (celestialweasel) wrote,
Celestial Weasel
celestialweasel

Passing fads...

... more from the American Diary of Stafford Beer ...

Wednesday 25th May 1960

[Beer has met Norbert Wiener, father of cybernetics for the first time]

"... Wiener believes that the emphasis on the digital computer has been a great mistake, and that analogue mechanisms are now due to come into their own. ..."
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