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Save14 views 7 Oct 2024WOSC congress 2024 Keynote John Beckford “Still in Torment: (Re)Designing Freedom” It is now 30 years since ‘World in Torment’ explored ‘chronic societary triage’ (WOSC, Beer 1993) and 50 since ‘Designing Freedom’ considered the role of ‘science in the service of man’. This address will briefly rehearse the key ideas of those works and then consider the current state of the world. Examining the societary, political, economic and planetary challenges we are now facing it will examine thosechallenges from a cybernetic perspective and show how those ideas can support us in resolving ‘The Real Threat to “All We Hold Most Dear

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