Notas del episodio
Part III of the non-cybernetics series focused on the little explored contributions of American Indian knowledge systems to the development of computation and algorithms. Mickey Newbury and songwriting, Navajo code-talkers during WWI/WWII, variations in native dialect, coyotes and stardust, sustaining genetic diversity, tricksters and their influence on probability studies, AIM takeover of the Fairchild semiconductor plant, indigenous anarchy and post-politics, Claude Shannon-Weaver method applied to Ojibwe scrolls, The Iroquois Confederacy as a model for the US constitution: symbolism of the arrows, the suspicious rise of Global Village Coffeehouse and tribal aesthetics in the early ...