Abstract
“Cybernetics” comes from the Greek word Kybernetike, meaning “the art of steering”.
Cybernetics is about having a goal and taking action to achieve that goal. Knowing whether you have reached your goal (or at least are getting closer to it) requires “feedback”, a concept that was made rigorous by cybernetics.
From the Greek, “cybernetics” evolved into Latin as “governor”, and it has, as a result, come to mean a form of government and hence control, in an all-embracing way. It has therefore come to mean not only an understanding of the applied environment, in terms of the mechanisms used to find one’s way through the complexities of that environment, but also the means of controlling that environment using the facilities of a central ...
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