ABSTRACT
In a paper entitled, "Information Technology and the Manipulability of Man," first published in Zeitschrift für Evangelische Ethik (May) 1968, XII (No. 3), Professor MacKay presented an inquiry into "how the scope and limits of human manipulability" may be affected by developments in the relatively new field of science variously referred to as "communication system theory," the "theory of information-processing," or "cybernetics." Professor MacKay feels that this new technology equips the would-be manipulator with new and powerful tools of communication and control, and is therefore changing the picture of what is possible. Second, it gives us new ways of looking at social interactions, and "reveals the nature of the manipulative relationship and its limitations in an interesting and . . . helpful light."
