Norbert wrote the book “Cybernetics”. There was a review by Pere Dubarle
which discusses the likely result of Norbert’s work in the “far future”, aka today.
“For the human processes which constitute the object of government
may be assimilated to games in the sense in which von Neumann has
studied them mathematically. Even though these games have an incomplete
set of rules, there are other games with a very large number of players,
where the data are extremely complex. The machines will define the State as
the best-informed player at each particular level; and the State is the only
supreme coordinator of all partial decisions. These are enormous privileges;
if they are acquired scientifically, they will permit the State under all circumstances
to beat every player of a human other than itself by offering this dilemma: either
immediate ruin, or planned cooperation. This will be the consequences of the
game itself without outside violence. The lovers of the best of worlds have
something indeed to dream of!” (Wiener, Human Use Of Human Beings (1950), p207-208)
