# The Human Use of Human Beings
**Domain:** Cybernetics / Ethics / Society
**Doc Type:** Book Node
**Maturity:** Evolving
**Related:** [[Norbert Wiener]], [[Cybernetics]], [[Design for Dignity]], [[Algorithmic Governance]]
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## Definition
_The Human Use of Human Beings_ is Norbert Wiener's 1950 public account of cybernetics and its ethical consequences.
## Corpus Context
The book is crucial to [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]] because it places human dignity inside the technical field from the beginning. Feedback and automation were never only engineering questions.
## Relationships
[[Norbert Wiener]], [[Cybernetics]], [[Design for Dignity]], [[Algorithmic Governance]]
## Sources / Provenance
- [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]
- https://archive.org/details/humanuseofhumanb00wien