#Cybernetics
5 entries tagged Cybernetics.
People (3)
- Gregory Bateson Gregory Bateson was the English anthropologist and systems thinker who studied Balinese and Iatmul culture, helped found cybernetics at the Macy Conferences, formulated the double-bind theory of schizophrenia, and spent his last years at the Esalen Institute.
- Norbert Wiener Norbert Wiener was the American mathematician who founded cybernetics, the science of control and communication in the animal and the machine, building on his wartime work on automatic gun-aiming, and who warned that the automation it enabled could dehumanize labor.
- Stewart Brand Stewart Brand is the founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, the WELL, the Global Business Network, and the Long Now Foundation, the figure who carried 1960s counterculture into Silicon Valley tech-utopianism.
Concepts (2)
- Cybernetics Cybernetics is the postwar science of control and communication in animals and machines, founded by Norbert Wiener and developed at the Macy Conferences, which diffused into computing, systems theory, artificial intelligence, and the Californian counterculture.
- Whole Earth Catalog The Whole Earth Catalog was Stewart Brand's counterculture compendium of tools and ideas, published from 1968, subtitled Access to Tools, opened with we are as gods, and won the National Book Award in 1972.