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Joseph Weizenbaum, %2Computer Power and Human Reason%1, Freeman 1975

	Weizenbaum  uses  computer   science  and  technology   as  a
supporting  example   for  the  contentions  of  Lewis  Mumford,
Theodore Roszak, and  Jacques Ellul that the  scientific view of  the
world is morally wrong.  Weizenbaum's style involves making extreme
statements followed later by contradictory assertions, so it is hard
to pin down a definite viewpoint.  We will return to matters of style
later, but here are what seem to be the main contentions:

.bb "#. Science has led people to a wrong view of the world and of life."
The view is characterized as mechanistic and the example of clockwork
is given.  Apparently analysis of a living system as composed of
interacting parts rather than treating it as a whole is bad.
It seems to me that taking Weizenbaum literally would preclude
medicine and experimental biology, but I doubt that he intends to
be taken literally.