Misha Glenny

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1,430 appearances 22 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 4d ago

Misha Glenny’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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In Our Time · Cybernetics · 28 May 2026 podcast

It seems to have dissipated. voice-verified

But what are its main legacies? voice-verified

What's important about cybernetics today? voice-verified

My thanks to Jacob Ward, John Agar and Arit Halpern. voice-verified

Next week, fall in for the Radetzky March. voice-verified

That's the life and works of Josef Roth, a master of Central European literature. voice-verified

Thank you for listening. voice-verified

OK, so now we can do the podcast bit where we relax a little. voice-verified

First of all, there's one thing that I wanted to ask. voice-verified

When I was reading about this, when you were talking about this, there was one person I kept thinking about, and that was Marshall McLuhan. voice-verified

So do any of you have any thoughts about how important this was for McLuhan's work, the sociologist and communications theorist, and in particular, the medium is the message, which seems to somehow be intrinsic to cybernetics? voice-verified

Reid? voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

Just on that to follow up, was there something identifiably specific about Soviet cybernetics that was different from Western cybernetics? voice-verified

So, Jacob, if I understood rightly what you were saying, cybernetics falls into obscurity because of its own success, because it's taken up by so many disciplines that it no longer has that clear identity that it had at the beginning. voice-verified

Would that roughly be right? voice-verified

Reid, anything else you think we've missed out in the discussion that's critical? voice-verified

So finally, there's been a lot of literary speculation about machines and humans and cyborgs. voice-verified

Are we getting to a stage where all of that dystopian vision is actually possibly becoming a reality? voice-verified

John? voice-verified

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