Orit Halpern
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133 appearances
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first heard May 2026
last heard 7 Sep
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I think that it's really interesting to also contemplate the place cybernetics has in amending or augmenting flawed human capacities and that kind of imaginary that was really pretty potent.
It comes out in the telephone exchange.
It comes out in the idea of game theory, which is like a related science, which is that, like, what if people are too emotional and blow up the world?
And so we need computers to step in and kind of make better decisions.
And it comes out a lot in smart cities.
In our present as people in the 60s, like Buckminster Fuller, but also people at RAND, which was an Air Force funded research institute in Santa Monica, started switching from warfare to welfare and started taking over things like urban management.
They increasingly turn to dealing with political problems by saying, let's have a technological solution.
Let's quantify.
Let's have data-driven decision-making.
Let's add this machinery.
And that continues to really inform our attitude to the world maybe today.
where a lot of times political decision-making is getting replaced or transformed by computational decision-making.
And that sits there at that government question of cybernetics and what the implications of governance are from technology.
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