AN347 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: A Cyborg Manifesto, A Reminder, Celluloid
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Cybernetics is not the theory of cyborgs (which is called cyborg theory) According to william gibson, the author and science commentator, wiener wanted to highlight teleological organisms . Gibson suggest that cyber" refers to a navigator". The future is here; it"s just not widely distributed yet : created the cyberpunk genre. William gibson was the first writer to visual a distinctly post-modern future characterized: o o o. Sub-genre in literature derived from technology is steampunk. A long time building: babbage may have designed the first automatic computing engines, but failed to build them. , his design was only used 129 years after his death. 1: calculator function, control mechanism, memory dimension, output product. During wwii, british intelligence at the code-breaking of bletchley park featured the. Bombe machine developed by alan turing to break the german enigma coding machine : the imitation game.
