John Agar

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In Our Time · Cybernetics · 28 May 2026 podcast

becomes this Soviet enthusiasm for a few years as well.

So it really does mean different things in different countries and at different times.

So in 1952, Kurt Vonnegut published his first novel, Player Piano, in which it's a dystopia all about the terrible effects of automation.

And the sort of leader of the whole terrible system is a character called Wiener.

So right, if you're talking fiction, and Kurt Vonnegut is one of the very best of the pessimistic thinkers about our world, about war, about destruction, and about science and technology in the future.

Right from the very start of his work, we have Norbert Wiener and cybernetics.

I'll take a tea.

I'd love a cup of tea.

I'll have tea too.

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