信息时代的黑暗英雄
Dark Hero of the Information Age
Flo Conway · 初版 2004 年
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上世纪中叶，曾经的神童、杰出的 MIT 数学家 Norbert Wiener 创立了控制论这一学科，点燃了计算机、自动化和全球电信的信息时代大爆炸。Wiener 率先清晰阐述了现代“反馈”概念，他的思想启迪了计算机先驱 John von Neumann、信息论学者 Claude Shannon 以及人类学家 Gregory Bateson 和 Margaret Mead 的研究工作。他的畅销书 Cybernetics 让他在公众视野中声名鹊起，而他对未来的惊人预见以及他热切的社
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我很赞同这种看法。《Dark Hero of the Information Age》https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Hero-Information-Age-Cybernetics... 阐述了 Wiener 和 Shannon 是如何各自独立创立信息论的，但 Wiener 走得更远；他把反馈机制作为一种方式融入了进去……
I agree with this sentiment. "Dark Hero of the Information Age" https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Hero-Information-Age-Cybernetics... lays out how both Weiner and Shannon created information theory independently but Weiner took it further; incorporating feedback as a way…
……毫无疑问是个江湖骗子。控制论脱胎于梅西会议（Macy conferences）[0]，要理清背景就得从这里入手。我还强烈推荐 Norbert Wiener 的传记《Dark Hero of the Information Age》[1]，它很好地介绍了这个时代最伟大的天才之一，其成就足以让 Shannon 和冯·诺伊曼黯然失色。《Principia Cybernetica》[2] 也是个不错的资源。[0] https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo23...……
…doubt whatsoever as a charlatan. Cybernetics came out of the Macy conferences [0] and this is where one needs to go, in order to establish context. I also highly recommend Norbert Wiener's biography "Dark Hero of the Information Age" [1] as a good introduction to one of the greatest geniuses of this age, easily eclipsing Shannon and von Neumann. Principia Cybernetica [2] is another good resource. [0] https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo23...…
Steve Heims 的《John Von Neumann and Norbert Weiner: From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death》（1982年）。虽然绝版了但图书馆借得到。Flo Conway 和 Jim Siegelman 写的《Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Weiner, the Father of Cybernetics》（2005年）。Wiener 自己也写过几本自传，包括《神童》（Child Prodigy）和《我是一个数学家》（I Am A Mathematician）。
John Von Neumann and Norbert Weiner: From Mathematics to the Technologies of Life and Death by Steve Heims (1982) Out of print but libraries have it. Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Weiner, the Father of Cybernetics by Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman (2005) Weiner himself wrote some autobiographies, including Child Prodigy and I Am A Mathematician.
关于“cyber”这个词起源的完整来龙去脉，可以去看看关于 Norbert Wiener 的《Dark Hero of the Information Age》。控制论（Cybernetics）的意思其实是“舵手之术”。
For full description of the origination of the term 'cyber', check out Dark Hero of the Information Age about Norbert Weiner. Cybernetics means 'steersmanship'.
太惨了，无论对个人还是对世界都是巨大的悲剧。我强烈推荐文里提到的那本书：《Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener, the Father of Cybernetics》。愿 Walter Pitts 安息。（有一点让我稍感不安：这篇文章提到了 Wiener 和其他人决裂的一个可能原因……
Such a terrible tragedy, both personal and for the world. I highly recommend the book referenced: "Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener, the Father of Cybernetics". R.I.P. Walter Pitts (One thing that troubles me slightly: this article mentions a possible cause of the break between Wiener and the others…
……开头还行，但后面感觉质量一路下滑。它确实不是市面上常见的那种东扯西拉的劣质科普书，但我总觉得它在其他方面有所欠缺。你可能也会喜欢《Dark Hero of the Information Age》
…well but the quality seemed to slide as it progressed. It certainly wasn't the low quality meandering pop-sci book you'll find so often, but I found it lacking in different ways. You might also like Dark Hero of the Information Age