It's interesting you bring this up. Norbert Wiener (coined cybernetics among other accomplishments) was once working on a kind of visual tracking system for the

It's interesting you bring this up. Norbert Wiener (coined cybernetics among other accomplishments) was once working on a kind of visual tracking system for the military, where a human in the loop would provide predictions as to where a plane were headed and this would be incorporated as a signal into the tracking system's prediction. I think ever since then you get a lot of ideas about using men as parts of machines, rather than the more Stalin-esque idea of making a new type of man