ISBN10: 0394492838, ISBN13: 9780394492834, [publisher: Random House] Hardcover First Edition 1st printing 1974. Almost like new hardcover. Good dust jacket has general wear and a small tears on top left corner. No writing or marks.
[Pullman, WA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1974]

ISBN10: 0394492838, ISBN13: 9780394492834, [publisher: Random House, New York, N.Y.] Hardcover First Edition This work contains two articles relative to cybernetics: "Both Sides of the Necessary Paradox" (Conversations with Gregory Bateson) Bateson is a naturalist, a cybernetic philosopher, anthropologist, psychologist, former husband of Margaret Mead, and formulator of the Double Bind theory of schizophrenia. The interview is a journey among the wholesome paradoxes that undermine human conscious purpose. And "Fanatic Life and Symbolic Death Among the Computer Bums". We visit an Intergalactic Spacewar Olympics at Stanford's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, as well as the on-line network linking all of America's major computer centers, an idyllic corporate research center, and a People's computer facility. Photographs and illustrations are included. Limited edition in cloth; one of 1,500 copies. Small dampstain to tail of spine; otherwise, this HARDCOVER copy is clean and solid.
[Santa Ana, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1974]