loppear reviewed The human use of human beings by Norbert Wiener
"... machines which possess some very sinister possibilities ... the automatic chess-playing machine."
3 stars
One of those old-enough books systematically looking at information, technology, and society's structures and making predictions that ring somewhat true and prescient - challenges for intellectual property rights, commodification of knowledge, factory automation and its eventual application to white-collar labor too - and perhaps for being right, it seems like it's not saying much new to us today.