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- Aug 2022
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in terms of the new perspectives provided by cybernetics and thecommunication sciences,
Did Chomsky get onto the cybernetics craze aka "The Bandwagon"?
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- Apr 2022
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The book was reviewed in all major magazines and newspapers, sparking what historian Ronald Kline has termed a “cybernetics craze,” becoming “a staple of science fiction and a fad among artists, musicians, and intellectuals in the 1950s and 1960s.”
This same sort of craze also happened with Claude Shannon's The Mathematical Theory of Information which helped to bolster Weiner's take.
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