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The Ratio Club and the rise of British cybernetics – tech podcast
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Writing in his journal on 20 September 1949, English psychiatrist Ross Ashby noted that six days earlier he had attended a meeting of young minds in the basement of the National Hospital for Nervous Disease in London. But what was discussed? Who else was in attendance? And how would the regular meetings of the Ratio Club change the face of British cybernetics and, latterly, the artificial intelligence we see all around us today?
This week, Alex Hearn hears from Professor Phil Husbands about the club’s conception, the anti-establishment rules of entry, and some of the club’s members, including Charles Darwin’s great-grandson Horace Barlow, astrophysicist Thomas Gold, and the father of modern computing Alan Turing. We also hear from Professor Robert MacKay about the effect the club had on his late father, and the Ratio Club legacies that remain to this day.
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