I recently finished reading Close to the Machine by Ellen Ullman, which so compellingly describes lives and situations in which entanglement with computers has a kind of warping, potentially even dehumanizing effect on people and processes so entangled.

My understanding is that prior to its institutionalization in Soviet universities, the official state criticism of cybernetics sort of resembled this. Anyone know of any good anti-cybernetics essays or books from the USSR that are easy to get?