Wiener’s Cybernetics (1948, read in the 2019 reissue) states that those who have contributed to the new science do not have the choice of suppressing its technical developments, and that the most “any of us” can do by suppression is to put the subject into the hands of its most irresponsible and most venal engineers.

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