...conned and co-opted into becoming semblances or "servomechanisms" of nonlife; Wiener puts it thus: When human atoms are knit into an organization in...their full right as responsible human beings, but as 37 Ibid., p. 58. cogs and levers and rods, it matters little that their raw material is flesh and blood....

...been misapplied, they also warned the public of the perils lying in wait when, as Wiener expressed it, 'human atoms are knit into an organization in which...not in their full right as responsible human beings. . ..62 This concern became a theme in popular culture in the 1950s and 60s as 'control' took on connotations...

...hostile to our own optimum use and development of information." He warned against fitting individuals "not in their full right as responsible human beings, but as cogs and levers and rods" to either mechanical or bureaucratic routines. Instead, he insisted that "to be alive is to participate...

...indictment even more clearly when read in connection with Norbert Weiner's The Human Use of Human Beings: "When human atoms are knit into an organization in...blood. What is used as an element in a machine is an element in the machine."1' V.'s connection of herself to clockwork, and her technological relationships...

...dangerous examples of those "machines of flesh and blood" Wiener described decades ago that may arise "when human atoms are knit into an organization in...responsible human beings, but as cogs and levers and rods ... in a machine," and in which they become, for all intents and purposes, "an element in the machine."...

...BEIOGS I have spoken of machines, bnt not only of machines having brains of brass and thews of iron. When human atoms are knit into an organization in...not in their full right as responsible human beings, bnt as cogs and levers and rods, it matters little that their raw material is flesh and blood. What...