Rips Computer "Science", picks up on criticisms of cybernetics and computers put forward by the creators/big names of the field (Joseph Weizenbaum, Norbert Wiener) before the Internet came along and the Big Dumb hit electrical engineering (as a field of study), computers (as machines), and everything else attached to digital logic systems. Related to Wikipedia on a metalevel:
The conventional wisdom in his field held that society relied upon computers to solve increasingly complex problems created by burgeoning populations and new technologies—especially nuclear weapons. It was said that computers had arrived “just in time” to help capitalist society cope with rapidly increasing complexity. “Yes, the computer did arrive ‘just in time,’” Weizenbaum wrote. “But in time for what? In time to save—and save very nearly intact, indeed, to entrench and stabilize—social and political structures that otherwise might have been either radically renovated or allowed to totter under the demands that were sure to be made on them.”
Weizenbaum believed computers were standing in the way of necessary revolution. He grew disgusted by his colleagues’ amoral servility before power. And he was unwilling to let them off the hook for enabling monstrous abuses by the powers that be, especially warmongers like Robert McNamara, who carpet-bombed Southeast Asian peasants with statistical perfection. “The scientist and the technologist can no longer avoid the responsibility for what he does,” Weizenbaum wrote.
Weizenbaum was also among the first thinkers in the field to recognize that code was ideology. He saw computers as the natural product of an imperialistic process that had corrupted and “reduced reason itself to only its role in the domination of things, man, and, finally, nature.” In this flattened-out world of instrumental reason, every stroke of the keyboard is an offering to the war machine, and every swipe of the touchscreen is a little prayer of thanks to the Pentagon, which made it all possible.
Meanwhile, as Weizenbaum observed, computers served as dispensers of moral indulgences for powerful decision-makers. “The computer, as presently used by the technological elite, is not a cause of anything. It is rather an instrument pressed into the service of rationalizing, supporting, and sustaining the most conservative, indeed, reactionary, ideological components of the current Zeitgeist,” he wrote. Computerization meant that no one had any incentive to take responsibility for difficult decisions—and, by the same token, no one could be held accountable for bad ones. Sound familiar?
Still, if you have an interesting long read on über-busting, I'd read it.