Claude Shannon Invented the Future
It's amazing how successful Shannon's followers were and continue to be at depicting him as the 'father of the information age', by means of the erasure of Norbert Wiener.Ronald Kline's The Cybernetic Moment, Or Why We Call Our Age The Information Age charts this historical boundary work in fascinating detail.
https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/cybernetics-moment