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- Cybernetics: a reactionary pseudoscience that appeared in the U.S.A. after World War II and also spread through other capitalist countries. Cybernetics clearly reflects one of the basic features of the bourgeois worldview—its inhumanity, striving to transform workers into an extension of the machine, into a tool of production, and an instrument of war. At the same time, for cybernetics an imperialistic utopia is characteristic—replacing living, thinking man, fighting for his interests, by a machine, both in industry and in war. The instigators of a new world war use cybernetics in their dirty, practical affairs. (en)
- A: The general verdict, and this is from many different people, is that they're behind us in hardware not hopelessly, but slightly. They are ahead of us in the theorization of automatization. (en)
- A: I'll tell you how much emphasis they're placing on it. They have an institute in Moscow. They have an institute
in Kiev. They have an institute in Leningrad, They have one in Yerevan in Armenia, in Tiflis, in Samarkand, in Tashkent and Novosibirsk. They may have others. (en)
- Q: Are they making full use of this science, in a way comparable to ours? (en)
- Q: On your last trip to Russia, did you find the Soviets placing much emphasis on the computer? (en)
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