Published decades ago this book is more relevant then ever. Weizenbaum impacted by the way people reacted to his therapy chatbot decided to investigate the mindset of the computer science milieu. And he diagnoses many of its ills with great precision; the cracked programer that spends his days hacking away at code, obedience to the military industrial complex, and most importantly the mechanistic and overly simple view of humans which makes them believe that they can play god.