{"id":243726,"date":"2026-09-07T05:07:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T10:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/the-absent-minded-father-of-cybernetics-norbert-wiener"},"modified":"2026-09-07T05:07:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T10:07:03","slug":"the-absent-minded-father-of-cybernetics-norbert-wiener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/the-absent-minded-father-of-cybernetics-norbert-wiener","title":{"rendered":"The Absent-Minded Father of Cybernetics, Norbert Wiener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-absent-minded-father-of-cybernetics-norbert-wiener.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we met, was I walking to the faculty club or away from it? I\u2019m wondering, because in the latter case I\u2019ve already had my lunch\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhen we met, was I walking to the faculty club or away from it? I\u2019m wondering, because in the latter case I\u2019ve already had my lunch\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}