cybernetics
pronunciation
How to pronounce cybernetics in British English:
UK [ˌsaɪbəˈnetɪks]
How to pronounce cybernetics in American English:
US [ˌsaɪbərˈnetɪks]
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- Noun:
- (biology) the field of science concerned with processes of communication and control (especially the comparison of these processes in biological and artificial systems)
Word Origin
- cybernetics
- cybernetics: [20] Cybernetics was first coined in French, as cybernétique, in the 1830s. But then it was used literally for the ‘art of governing’ (it is a derivative of Greek kubernétēs ‘steersman, governor’, from kubernan ‘steer’, source of English govern). The English term, ‘theory of control and communication processes’, is a new formation, introduced in the late 1940s by the founder of cybernetics, the US mathematician Norbert Wiener (1894–1964).=> govern
- cybernetics (n.)
- coined 1948 by U.S. mathematician Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) from Greek kybernetes "steersman" (metaphorically "guide, governor") + -ics; perhaps based on 1830s French cybernétique "the art of governing." The future offers very little hope for those who expect that our new mechanical slaves will offer us a world in which we may rest from thinking. Help us they may, but at the cost of supreme demands upon our honesty and our intelligence. [Norbert Wiener, "God and Golem, Inc.," 1964]
Example
- 1. The third international conference on machine learning and cybernetics .
- 2. Although the catalog bridged cybernetics and the back-to-the-land movement , however , brand himself had done little to address computers per se .
- 3. Drawing on the rhetorical tactics of cybernetics , brand offered up xerox parc , resource one , and the merry pranksters as prototypical elites for the techno-social future .
- 4. And norbert wiener , father of cybernetics , sought to combine the human and the machine into a system-initially , but not only , an anti-aircraft system-that was defined by the way in which it controlled itself .
- 5. From this reunification , in part , were born the various system sciences of complexity such as general systems theory , cybernetics , nonequilibrium thermodynamic systems theory , and evolutionary systems theory .