"Machines will do what we ask them to do and not what what we ought to ask them to do." -- Norbert Wiener, 1949
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M.I.T. Scholar’s 1949 Essay on Machine Age Is Found
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“The Machine Age,” an essay written for The New York Times by Norbert Wiener, a visionary mathematician, languished for six decades in the M.I.T. archives, and now excerpts are being published.