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Invention: The Care and Feeding of Ideas(The MIT Press)

Invention: The Care and Feeding of Ideas(The MIT Press)


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Internationally honoured for brilliant achievements throughout his career, Norbert Wiener (1894-1964), Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was an insightful observer of the role of science in society. This work, written in 1954 but only now published for the first time, can be read as a salutary critique of events in science that Wiener accurately predicted and a chance to rethink the components of a social and political climate that encourages inventiveness.

About the Author :
Norbert Wiener (1894–1964) served on the faculty in the Department of Mathematics at MIT from 1919 until his death. In 1963, he was awarded the National Medal of Science for his contributions to mathematics, engineering, and biological sciences. He was the author of many books, including Norbert Wiener—A Life in Cybernetics and the National Book Award-winning God & Golem, Inc.: A Comment on Certain Points Where Cybernetics Impinges on Religion (both published by the MIT Press). Steve J. Heims, once a research physicist, had devoted his attention to the history of twentieth century science for the last two decades.

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"Norbert Wiener helped to build and inform our high-tech society. A mathematician with dirty hands, he moved easily between theory, invention and engineering... The manuscript of this unpublished 1954 book was found long after Wiener's death, and is only now available. It's inevitably out of date here and there, but the uncannily accurate predictions and warnings at its heart bring credibility to advice and insights that are all too relevant to our present situation." J. Baldwin, Whole Earth Review "The mark of a great book is that it should be relevant well beyond its time, and this volume by Wiener is precisely that. In lucid, enormously readable language, Wiener provides a whistle-stop tour of the history of science and technology from the start of civilisation, charts the growth and decline of intellectual and practical excellence, and uses many examples--such as the development of paper--to show that tools and the skills to realise a design in practice must be available for inventiveness to flourish." Scientists for Global Responsibility Newsletter


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780262731119
  • Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press
  • Height: 201 mm
  • No of Pages: 186
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 227 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0262731118
  • Publisher Date: 22 Aug 1994
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: The MIT Press
  • Sub Title: The Care and Feeding of Ideas
  • Width: 132 mm


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