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Chapter 4: The Human Machine

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Chapter 4: The Human Machine

The Formula: Norbert Wiener lecturing in the 1950s at MIT, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Artwork by Alex Veness for forthcoming publication: Imaginary Futures, by Richard Barbrook (Pluto Press, 2007). Airbrush and watercolour on paper, 138mm X 221mm.

Cooperative creativity and participatory democracy should be extended from the virtual world into all areas of life. This time, the new stage of growth must be a new civilisation.