ARPA engineers in Licklider’s Behavioral Sciences Program office believed that computers could be used to model social behavior. Data could be collected and algorithms could be designed to analyze the data and to build models. This led Licklider to another seminal idea. What if, based on the data collected, you could get the computer to predict human behavior? If man can predict, he can control.No title ↱
The Pentagon's Brain
An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency
Annie Jacobsen