Over the last five or so years lots of smart people around me started taking an interest in systems thinking and management cybernetics from the immediate post-WW2 era. I was being drawn in that direction too, perhaps as a reaction to the current [flailing hands] of tech
Anyway, my old mucker* Dan Davies wrote a book called ‘The Unaccountability Machine’ that spends a lot of time on Stafford Beer. Here’s Henry Farrell talking about it.
* he mostly beat me at pool
https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/cybernetics-is-the-science-of-the
