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imposing 'structural adjustment' agreements: drastic cuts to public-sector spending and the sell-off of public-sector assets to fund debt-servicing

It was Wiener who coined the word 'cybernetics' from the ancient Greek word for a helmsman: kybernetes

The baleful 1969 decision to 'go IBM' was worthy of any corporate capitalist boardroom

The human mind's obdurate tendency to overconfidence becomes a major liability for humanity when the decision-making is delegated to tiny numbers of highly privileged minds.