093: BOOK CLUB! Cybernetic Revolutionaries with Eden Medina

Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile (Print Version) (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262525968/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0262525968&linkId=e09a1ed21dc65f0235d273fa6e30db5b)
01:57 – Eden’s Superpower: Being a Patient Learner
06:51 – Determining Your Ability/Eligibility to Speak as an Expert
08:55 – Electrical Engineering => Law => PhD Work
12:47 – The History of Cybernetics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics)
15:51 – American vs British Cybernetics
The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future by Andrew Pickering (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0226667901/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=0226667901&linkId=442c315bcdda3e32db2428df1dfab243)
Grey Walter’s Tortoises (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLULRlmXkKo)
17:37 – The Many Definitions of Cybernetics
The Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History) by Ronald R. Kline (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/142142424X/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=therubyrep-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=142142424X&linkId=446c68cf5c6674b14e216d1099f09f05)
25:03 – Project Cybersyn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn)
45:56 – Sociotechnical Engineering
53:24 – Creating Ethically Sound Tools
Reflections:
Astrid: The power dynamics that are already baked into our tools and the history of computing is global.
Jessica: Looking into second-order cybernetics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-order_cybernetics).
Rein: The importance of learning about history, culture, and how people work as being necessary for a technical career.
Eden: Making connections throughout the show.
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Cybernetic Revolutionaries: Technology and Politics in Allende’s Chile (Print Version)

01:57 – Eden’s Superpower: Being a Patient Learner

06:51 – Determining Your Ability/Eligibility to Speak as an Expert

08:55 – Electrical Engineering => Law => PhD Work

12:47 – The History of Cybernetics

15:51 – American vs British Cybernetics

The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future by Andrew Pickering

Grey Walter’s Tortoises

17:37 – The Many Definitions of Cybernetics

The Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History) by Ronald R. Kline

25:03 – Project Cybersyn

45:56 – Sociotechnical Engineering

53:24 – Creating Ethically Sound Tools

Reflections:

Astrid: The power dynamics that are already baked into our tools and the history of computing is global.

Jessica: Looking into second-order cybernetics.

Rein: The importance of learning about history, culture, and how people work as being necessary for a technical career.

Eden: Making connections throughout the show.

This episode was brought to you by @therubyrep of DevReps, LLC. To pledge your support and to join our awesome Slack community, visit patreon.com/greaterthancode.

To make a one-time donation so that we can continue to bring you more content and transcripts like this, please do so at paypal.me/devreps. You will also get an invitation to our Slack community this way as well.

Amazon links may be affiliate links, which means you’re supporting the show when you purchase our recommendations. Thanks!

Special Guest: Eden Medina.

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