“It is often said today that… man is passing into a new phase of civilization which will be based on something other than the simple physical science. The candidate usually put forward to take over the dominant role is described sometime as Automation or…Communication Science. There is, however, a case for arguing that the fact of Automation or Communication is less important than what the systems are automated to do… and that the science which will contribute the content of the new civilization, even if not the tools, of the new civilization will, and perhaps should, be biology.“ 1
— C. H. Waddington
»C.H.Waddington’s Biological Science of Human Settlements« in »Utopia Computer. The “New” in Architecture?«. Verlag TU Berlin, ISBN 978-3-7983-3270-6, DOI 10.14279/depositonce-15964
Open access: Utopia Computer. The “New” in Architecture? (tu-berlin.de)
- Cage, J., Waddington, C. H., International Union of Biological Sciences, & Unesco. (1972). Biology and the history of the future : an IUBS/Unesco symposium. Edinburgh University Press. ↩︎