Wednesday 15 April 2020

The Application Of Science To Society

"The Snows of Ganymede."

19th century, statistics;

1901-1969 -

games theory;
communications theory;
general semantics;
the principle of least effort;
generalized epistemology -

1970, the Psychotechnic Institute -

fumdamental equations for human relations, with a field dynamics approach;

discoveries about individual psychomatics, to bear fruit centuries later;

basic laws of group action, precisely formulated and "...immediately usable..." (p. 175)

1 comment:

Sean M. Brooks said...

Kaor, Paul!

Truth to say, things like "fundamental equations for human relations, with a field dynamics approach" sounds a lot like the science fictional cliches about "nandwavium," for purely hypothetical elements found or added to the table of elements.

Ad astra! Sean