“The Disregarded Tools of Modern Man” by Safford Beer offered a unique argument to the organization of our society and its relationship to how it interacts within itself. As a society, we have allowed our technology and interconnected networks to dominate and control our public. Overall, I think it’s interesting as a populace that our technology has advanced to a point where everyone feels it is an efficient system, but we neglect to acknowledge that our systems have hindered what it truly means to progress. Our technology has become a distraction for the masses. It’s inhibiting and not enabling.

Moreover, Gordon Pask’s “The Architectural Relevance of Cybernetics” adds support to Beer’s subjects on technologies integration in society. By adding cybernetics into a local niche of architecture, a buildings function can be something interactive and can influence difference aspects that help define what that space actually is. I find it interesting that cybernetics imbedded in architecture should be influenced by an inhabitant. Space should be controlled by an individual by defined by the designer. It raises questions about what it actually means to inhabit and how society should interpret space. It can add a unique addition of the individual vs the masses

Lastly, Wieners reading coincides with the previous readings and how transmissions between technology and Man are defined. By defining natural sensory systems, Wiener states the benefits to machines being able to relay information in an almost natural state similar to Man. To me, this begins to argue how a machine can function as an individual but its systems shouldn’t define what that machine is. It begs questions about what created what, and if our natural systems are actually natural. Defining freewill is the beginning of how interconnected systems affect the masses.