The MIC speech was written (at least in part) by Malcolm C. Moos, a trained social scientist who was reportedly familiar with C. Wright Mills's similar discussions of the decline of individual autonomy and the militarization of the economy.
oh that's really interesting - I tried and failed to find any evidence at all that he'd read or worked with Wiener, but I should have been searching for chain connections
It's been awhile since I looked at the literature about the speech but I'm pretty sure Ike's brother Milton also had a hand in it. He was president of Johns Hopkins and I would be amazed if the Hopkins Operation Research Office did not have any cybernetics-related grants at some point.
The MIC speech was written (at least in part) by Malcolm C. Moos, a trained social scientist who was reportedly familiar with C. Wright Mills's similar discussions of the decline of individual autonomy and the militarization of the economy.
oh that's really interesting - I tried and failed to find any evidence at all that he'd read or worked with Wiener, but I should have been searching for chain connections
It's been awhile since I looked at the literature about the speech but I'm pretty sure Ike's brother Milton also had a hand in it. He was president of Johns Hopkins and I would be amazed if the Hopkins Operation Research Office did not have any cybernetics-related grants at some point.