The cybernetic humanities: Leif Weatherby reviews The Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age by Ronald R. Kline; Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History by Thomas Rid; and Cybernetics: The Macy Conferences 1946–1953 by Claus Pias. How Silicon Valley pushed coding into American classrooms. This computer language is feeding hacker values into young minds. A leading Silicon Valley engineer explains why every tech worker needs a humanities education. Liberal arts majors are the future of the tech industry. Silicon Valley to liberal arts majors — we want you: Tom Slee reviews The Fuzzy and the Techie: Why the Liberal Arts Will Rule the Digital World by Scott Hartley and What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing by Ed Finn (and more).
