Dark Hero Of The Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener The Father of Cybernetics

Length-52 minutes, 16 seconds

Deborah Harper, President of Psychjourney, interviews Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman, co-authors of Dark Hero Of The Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener The Father of Cybernetics published by Basic Books.

Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman

As authors, Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman have broken new ground in the study of personal and social change. Their published works offer a compelling blend of first-person testimony, in-depth analysis and tough investigative journalism. Their books include SNAPPING: America’s Epidemic of Sudden Personality Change, and HOLY TERROR: The Fundamentalist War on America’s Freedoms in Religion, Politics, and Our Private Lives.

Flo Conway graduated from the University of New Mexico with a B.A. in journalism. She earned her master’s degree and was advanced to doctoral candidacy at the University of Oregon, where she pioneered the first interdisciplinary program in communication.

Jim Siegelman graduated with honors in philosophy from Harvard, where he also served as president of the Harvard Lampoon. He conducted graduate study in philosophy, linguistics and semiotics as recipient of the Fiske Fellowship to Trinity College, Cambridge.

Conway and Siegelman’s writings on many timely topics has kept them at the fore of the media. They have appeared on “Good Morning America,” the “Today” show, “The Tonight Show,” “Prime Time Live,” “20/20,” “48 Hours,” “NBC Nightly News,” “CNN Late Edition,” “Larry King,” and more than 300 radio and television programs in the U.S., Canada and Europe. They have lectured at more than 40 colleges and universities, where their books have long been required texts, and addressed numerous professional associations, mainline religious denominations, and civic organizations. Articles by or about them have appeared in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Science Digest and many other periodicals. Visit their website.

Comments

[Irving Bradley]

I've read DARK HERO, a fully absorbing work that provided me with much useful information about the life of the boy Prodigy and Genius, Norbert Weiner, whose mathematical principles and teaching still provide the basis for our current snd future Science and Technology.

It was great to have the Authors of Dark Hero, Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman, give me so many more significant details about Weiner's life and acomplishments.

Thank you for making the transcript available to the Public.