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

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

Kline, Ronald R.

Paperback

Series: New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History

Sports General20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Computers

ISBN10: 142142424X
ISBN13: 9781421424248
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: Oct 1 2017
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

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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, a senior historian of technology, examines the intellectual and cultural history of cybernetics and information theory, whose language of information, feedback, and control transformed the idiom of the sciences, hastened the development of information technologies, and laid the conceptual foundation for what we now call the Information Age.

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