Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age

by Ronald R. Kline

Book Overview

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Cybernetics--the science of communication and control as it applies to machines and to humans--originates from efforts during World War II to build automatic antiaircraft systems. Following the war, this science extended beyond military needs to examine all systems that rely on information and feedback, from the level of the cell to that of society. In The Cybernetics Moment, Ronald R. Kline,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 142142424X
• ISBN13: 9781421424248
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"