The Cybernetics Moment: Or Why We Call Our Age the Information Age (New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History)
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (592 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 142142424X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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With The Cybernetics Moment, Kline has moved cybernetics out of the shadows of intellectual history into the limelight." (The American Historical Review)" valuable addition to the history of cybernetics" (ICON)"This is a book certain to become an instant classic for historians working in the increasingly broad range of scientific and technological disciplines over which the cybernetics moment has cast its long shadow." (Isis)" Kline's book presents an invaluable resource that sheds light on the conceptual foundations of some of the most convincing investigations of interactions between human civilization and planetary ecologies." (British Society for Literature and Science)" The Cybernetics Moment relies on a deep and thorough mining of primary historical sources, coupled with a broad and contextual review of the secondary historical literature and an appropriate level of attention to related popular culture na
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. Ultimately, he reveals the crucial role played by the cybernetics momentwhen cybernetics and information theory were seen as universal sciencesin setting the stage for our current preoccupation with information technologies.. Outstanding Academic Title, ChoiceCyberneticsthe science of communication and control as it applies to machines and to humansoriginates from efforts during World War II to build automatic antiaircraft systems. Kline argues that, for about twenty years after 1950, t
Kline is the Bovay Professor in History and Ethics of Engineering at Cornell University. Ronald R. He is the author of Steinmetz: Engineer and Socialist and Consumers in the Country: Technology and Social Change in Rural America.