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

Reference Type Book
Year of Publication
2015
Author
Author: Ronald R. Kline
Language
English
Number of Pages
352 pp.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
City
Baltimore, MD
Region
United States
Chronological Period
1900-1949
1950-1999
21st century
ISBN
9781421416717
Annotation

Examines the history of cybernetics and the evolving relationship between humans and machines since World War II. 

Contents: 

  • War and information theory
  • Circular causality
  • The cybernetics craze
  • The information bandwagon
  • Humans as machines
  • Machines as human
  • Cybernetics in crisis
  • Inventing an information age
  • Two cybernetic frontiers
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