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element of freedom is the right to privacy, a right that
cannot be expected to stand against an unremitting technological attack."
One cannot come up with a more 'unremitting technological attack'
than what is happening now.
That's worth saying again:
A more 'unremitting technological attack' could not be described!
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Cybernetic control of society
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You are about to encounter the true use of the 'cyber' prefix.
Cybernetics is a cross-disciplinary science. The name was coined by
Norbert Wiener [pron. whiner], who was a professor of mathematics at
MIT, and did radar and firing-feedback mechanisms for the U.S. in
World War II. Cybernetics describes the complex of sciences dealing
with communication and control in the living organism AND in the
machine. Its application is sometimes called operations research.
I personally rank Norbert Wiener above Albert Einstein.
Operations research is a difficult discipline --- I certainly don't understand
it --- but when it was desperately needed during World War II, the U.S. Dept.
of War went for it gung-ho, rightfully. Signals intelligence (SIGINT) is the
first step...the NSA grew out of these wartime operations research efforts.
To seek out information from noise, then act on the information.
Target accuracy for precision high altitude bombing requires
a complex feedback mechanism to control deployment (pre-GPS WW II).
* My dad:
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* Norden bombsights revolutionized aerial bombing.
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* They were so accurate we stopped putting explosives
* in the bombs and just aimed for people.
Communications, Command and Control. The above wasn't rea
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