Excerpt: “That mythical path into the future can be a clearly marked and straight one, or it can be obscure and looping backward instead of ahead, running into obstacles that had already been overcome. The work on the myth, in short, can either repeat or overcome past misconceptions. It can be obscuring or it can be clarifying, regressive or progressive, a trap or the way out.”

Rid, Thomas. (2016). Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.