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 | : | 4.84 (890 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 142142424X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is the author of Steinmetz: Engineer and Socialist and Consumers in the Country: Technology and Social Change in Rural America.. Ronald R. Kline is the Bovay Professor in History and Ethics of Engineering at Cornell University
Downey, University of Wisconsin–Madison, author of Closed Captioning: Subtitling, Stenography, and the Digital Convergence of Text with Television) . You will almost smell that cigar." (Second-Order Cybernetics)"Kline’s The Cybernetics Moment tracks the rise and fall of the cybernetics movement in more detail than any historical account to date." (Los Angeles Review of Books)"Kline does a valuable service tracing the contrasting fates of cybernetics and information theory." (Annals of Science)" The knowledge offered in The Cybernetics Moment will greatly contribute to any reader seeking an enhanced or more comprehensive understanding of our present-day discourse surrounding information, while also providing a detailed and well-warranted history of the science of cybernetics." (Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship)"After reading his book, it is impossible to ignore the contribution that cybernetics has made to comp
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.. In The Cybernetics Moment, Ronald R. 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. 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, the growth of cybernetics and information theory and ever-more-powerful computers produced a utopian information narrativean enthusiasm for information science that influenced natural scientists, social scientis