Wiener is a crank — in a good way — and is very insightful. The whole book pretty much looks at humans and the institutions set up by the western world (law, academia, capitalism, etc.) through the lens of control and information theory. As someone who learned about these subjects in school and thinks about these disciplines every day I will say his insight was very interesting. Huge recommend for anyone remotely interested in those fields. Also, his words seem quite prescient given the current focus surrounding AI safety and how his words — despite being from the 50s — echo a lot of the same concerns from modern day AI doomers (which is also alluded to in the foreword by Brian Christian in the edition I read).