It looks like this is an excerpt from Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at AI, which explains why past Wiener the focus is entirely on artificial intelligence

It looks like this is an excerpt from Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at AI, which explains why past Wiener the focus is entirely on artificial intelligence researchers and commentators: first McCulloch and Pitts, then von Neumann, then Minsky and Simon, Kurzweil, and finally Hawking and Musk. It's an odd line to take, though, since artificial intelligence has never been the sole or even central focus of cybernetics. There was a relatively explicit split in 1956 at the Dartmouth workshop, but the piece follows the AI thread from there on with no real acknowledgement that there was any other path in effect. Beer and Forrester began their cybernetics-related work around 1960, and so the article seems to drop them entirely as no longer interesting. This is convenient for the overall thesis: Lloyd works on the limits of computation and Moore's Law, so he structured this article as "Wiener underestimated advances in raw computing power, but now that's dying down and so he's especially relevant". But the offhand references to Wiener's relevance to unemployment, human-computer interfacing, environmental disasters, and warfare are cheapened by the speculative "what would Wiener think?" tone. His work has actively shaped the current state of economic planning, environmental modelling, and military strategy, so it doesn't make much sense to read him like an outside commentator on those topics.