> I believe that he thought he could "warn" people about where our > technology was taking us in the > 1948-52 time period.
> At some point, after giving scores of > speeches and writing his warnings in the Saturday Evening Post and > wherever he could, he stopped. Stopped cold. Norbert Wiener's 'God & Golem, Inc' was published in *1964* - and he was still arguing for socialist-pacifism in this wonderful book which was written in the last few years of his life... Later, Richard # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net