>Wiener could not foresee a technological world in which innovation and self-organization bubble up from the bottom rather than being imposed from the top.

Holy shit this author is unutterably clueless. Wiener in fact wrote a whole book more or less on how innovation and self organization bubble up from the bottom. It was called "Invention: The Care and Feeding of Ideas."

> Wiener saw the world in a deeply pessimistic light.

Gee, a Jewish guy in 1950 was pessimistic and worried about totalitarianism. I wonder where he might have acquired this attitude? Maybe, you know, all them people recently killed in WW-2 might have spooked the man?

I used to respect Seth Lloyd ... until he published the ridiculous "on the computational capacity of the universe." Google informs me he also takes money from child molesting gangsters, which sounds about right. Dude should stop grubbing money from pedophiles and read a book.