Licklider (no direct TP)

[Richard Fiero]

Stephen Musgrave wrote:
>Do you guys know about this guy? (Licklider not Byrne)
>
><http://journal.davidbyrne.com/2009/10/102409-internet-antichrist.html>http://journal.davidbyrne.com/2009/10/102409-internet-antichrist.html
>
>Reckon TP does?

It's a RAND/MIT/Naval Research Laboratory thing. Maxwell's Demon 
plays a very large role and continues to do so. After WWII, the 
military had a number of scientists left over who could be employed 
in C3I Systems Analysis (Operations Research in Britain). They 
happily applied the laws of thermodynamics to social science and 
economics (neoclassical economics, the Chicago School). It's quite 
pervasive and not just in the gizmos but in much that has shaped our 
world. Robert McNamara is/was a leading example. It's a very large 
list: Norbert Wiener, John von Neumann, Claude Shannon (entropy), 
Herbert Simon (in a number of fields) . . . Privacy concerns, well 
there is no privacy. Does P know this stuff? Don't we all, somehow?