The cybernetics moment, or, why we call our age the information age /
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 anti-aircraft systems. Following the war, this science extended beyond military needs to examine all systems that rely on information and feed...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2015]
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Colección: | New studies in American intellectual and cultural history.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- War and information theory
- Circular causality
- The cybernetics craze
- The information bandwagon
- Humans as machines
- Machines as human
- Cybernetics in crisis
- Inventing an information age
- Two cybernetic frontiers.