The Best Cybernetics Books 2024

1. The Way Things Work Book of the Computer [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. The Way Things Work Book of the Computer by Allen and Unwin Limited Staff

The Way Things Work Book of the Computer, Used [Hardcover]

2. Cyberspace for Beginners, Used [Paperback]

Cyberspace is a late 20th-century word for a world of information accessible via computer technology. Limited only by our imagination and the interface between ourselves and the machine, cyberspace can be all things to all people - a world of fantasy, virtual reality' meetings, Big Brother data bases or a global social network.

Cyberspace for Beginners, Used [Paperback]

3. Psycho-Cybernetics 2000, Used [Paperback]

In a thoroughly updated, revitalized version of Maxwell Maltz's seminal and bestselling program for personal fulfillment through self-image enhancement. Sommer applies Maltz's breakthrough principles of positive self-growth to today's complex personal and professional challenges.

Psycho-Cybernetics 2000, Used [Paperback]

4. Great Ideas in Information Theory, Language and Cybernetics [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Great Ideas in Information Theory, Language and Cybernetics by Jagjit Singh

Great Ideas in Information Theory, Language and Cybernetics [Paperback - Used]

5. Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History, Used [Hardcover]

As lives offline and online merge even more, it's easy to forget how we got here. Rise of the Machines reclaims the spectacular story of cybernetics, a control theory of man and machine. In a history that unpacks one of the twentieth century's pivotal ideas, Thomas Rid delivers a thought-provoking portrait of our technology-enraptured era. Springing from the febrile mind of mathematician Norbert Wiener amid the devastation of World War II, the cybernetic vision underpinned a host of seductive myths about the future of machines. This vision would radically transform the postwar world, ushering in sweeping cultural change. From the Cold War's monumental SAGE bomber defense system to enhanced humans, Wiener's scheme turned computers from machines of assured destruction into engines of brilliant utopias. Cybernetics triggered blissful cults, the Whole Earth Catalog , and feminist manifestos, just as it fueled martial gizmos and the air force's foray into virtual space. As Rid shows, cybernetics proved a powerful tool for two competing factions--those who sought to make a better world and those who sought to control the one at hand. In the Bay Area, techno-libertarians embraced networked machines as the portal to a new electronic frontier: a peaceful, open space of freedom. In Washington, DC, cyberspace provided the perfect theater for dominance and war. Meanwhile the future arrived secretly in 1996, with Moonlight Maze, dawn of a new age of digital state-on-state espionage. That "first cyberwar," as Rid reveals in a blow-by-blow account, went on for years--and indeed has never stopped. In our long-promised cybernetic future, the line between utopia and dystopia continues to be disturbingly thin. Drawing on new sources and interviews with hippies, anarchists, sleuths, and spies, Rise of the Machines offers an unparalleled perspective into our anxious embrace of technology and today's clash of digital privacy and security.

Rise of the Machines, Used [Hardcover]

6. Cyber Cities, Used [Hardcover]

"Boyer stands against the outpouring of enthusiasm over our predigested, reconfigured, digital world."-Public Art Review

Cyber Cities, Used [Hardcover]

7. Cyberarts: Exploring Art & Technology, Used [Paperback]

Cyberarts: Exploring Art & Technology by Jacobson

Cyberarts: Exploring Art & Technology, Used [Paperback]

8. Psychofeedback: Advanced psycho cybernetics [Hardcover - Used]

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Psychofeedback: Advanced psycho cybernetics, Used [Hardcover]

9. Prosthetic Territories: Politics And Hypertechnologies (Politics and Culture) [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Defined as that space of collision between human and machine, where technology and humanity fuse, is the prosthetic territory. Within that territory a new political and cultural struggle emerges, a territory where theory and practice can converge. The essayists in this volume approach in innovative ways topics in feminism, Marxism, postcolonialism, queer theory, psychoanalysis, postmodernism, political theory, and the critique of racism and technique. Defined as that space of collision between human and machine, where technology and humanity fuse, is the prosthetic territory of postmodern existence. Within that territory a new terrain of political and cultural struggle is emerginga weird place where theory and practice can converge.This collection of essays maps the newest terrains of political struggle by deploying a range of poststructuralist concepts embodied in phrases such as technology of writing, corporeal city, cartographic self, geography of the body, words as ligatures, battleground of bodily form, semiotic guerrilla warfare, veil of print, textual architecture, and materiality of the printed text. Such terms allow the authors to approach in innovative ways topics in feminism, Marxism, postcolonialism, queer theory, psychoanalysis, postmodernism, political theory, and the critique of racism and technique.

Prosthetic Territories: Politics And Hypertechnologies (Politics and Culture) [Paperback - Used]

10. The metaphorical brain;: An introduction to cybernetics as artificial intelligence and brain theory [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. The metaphorical brain;: An introduction to cybernetics as artificial intelligence and brain theory by Michael A. Arbib

The metaphorical brain;: An introduction to cybernetics as artificial intelligence and brain theory, Used [Hardcover]