# 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]] --- ## 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