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   The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society (The Da Capo series in science)

   Norbert Wiener

   “We are not stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves. A pattern is a message.”

   From the father of cybernetics, a visionary 1950 classic that influenced generations of thinkers, creators, and entrepreneurs as wide-ranging as beloved author Kurt Vonnegut, anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson, and virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier:

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