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The Minds of Men

The switch to digital communication technology, aided and abetted by satellites ...the...

The switch to digital communication technology, aided and abetted by satellites ...the melding of computers and communication

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The switch to digital communication technology, aided and abetted by satellites
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...the melding of computers and communication...
Duration
8 seconds
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25
Timestamp in Movie
01:28:16
Uploaded
Jul 01, 2025
Genres
documentary
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"The Minds of Men" is a 3+ year investigation into the experimentation, art, and practice of social engineering and mind control during the Cold War - a mind-bending journey into the past that gives startling insight into the worl...
A fact which influenced Licklider's vision for a networked, interconnected society. - The Minds of Men 00:06
A fact which influenced Licklider's vision for a...
Man: Then to interconnect each of the computers with each other, to form a fully-connected network. - The Minds of Men 00:08
Man: Then to interconnect each of the computers with each...
Narrator: That would eventually culminate in the DARPA-created ARPAnet, - The Minds of Men 00:08
Narrator: That would eventually culminate in the...
Man: Research now going on will someday permit a network user to log in. - The Minds of Men 00:05
Man: Research now going on will someday permit a network...
(echoes) - The Minds of Men 00:22
(echoes)
And we must get rid of any notion straight away that control - The Minds of Men 00:09
And we must get rid of any notion straight away that control
Let's see how the mechanism works. You see it lifting here. - The Minds of Men 00:05
Let's see how the mechanism works. You see it lifting...
Transmitting the message along here. Lifting that cam up here, - The Minds of Men 00:09
Transmitting the message along here. Lifting that cam up...
It's called feedback, and feedback is ubiquitous in control systems. - The Minds of Men 00:08
It's called feedback, and feedback is ubiquitous in...
Narrator: At this point, we realize that reality itself is not a fixed thing. - The Minds of Men 00:07
Narrator: At this point, we realize that reality itself is...
As our nervous systems interpret the symbols and signals - The Minds of Men 00:16
As our nervous systems interpret the symbols and signals
Bateson: These systems which are minds are circuits of cause and effect. - The Minds of Men 00:05
Bateson: These systems which are minds are circuits of cause...
For me the system is man and environment. - The Minds of Men 00:05
For me the system is man and environment.
Narrator: Man sought to control his own kind - The Minds of Men 00:15
Narrator: Man sought to control his own kind
McKay: What is cybernetics? A railway train needs no steering gear. - The Minds of Men 00:07
McKay: What is cybernetics? A railway train needs no...
The forces required to correct for the buffetings of wind and way are - The Minds of Men 00:09
The forces required to correct for the buffetings of wind...
A ship, lacking such implicit means of guidance, - The Minds of Men 00:09
A ship, lacking such implicit means of guidance,
The Latin for helmsman is gubenator; the Greek, kybernetes. - The Minds of Men 00:06
The Latin for helmsman is gubenator; the Greek, kybernetes.
From the first comes our word cybernetics, last cybernétique, - The Minds of Men 00:10
From the first comes our word cybernetics, last...
♪(piano, scissors) - The Minds of Men 00:16
♪(piano, scissors)