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cybernetics /cy·ber·net·ics/ (si″ber-net´iks) the science of the processes of communication and control in the animal and in the machine.
cybernetics [sī′bərnet′iks] the science of control and communication in living and nonliving systems, as in comparative study of electronic computers and the living brain. cybernetics the science of communication and control in the animal and in the machine. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Capital capitalizes, assimilates, makes its own substance, revitalizing its being, a vast metabolism absorbing even the most ancient exchanges, running away, as the cyberneticians put it, performing, as it does, its own anthropomorphosis, its triumph the triumph of mediation--and, let's not forget, it organizes, capital organizes, capital is "an organizing," organizing social forms. The Fun Palace was designed together with two other legendary figures: the cybernetician Gordon Pask and the theatrical impresario Joan Littlewood, together they evolved an all-purpose activity space with infinitely movable, removable and interchangeable elements: turntable escalators, foldaway roofs and the like. With the guidance of Gordon Pask, the British cybernetician and cognitive scientist, the idea was developed that the combination of human being and machine-environment forms a reciprocal learning system, each building his/her/its knowledge from what he/she/it learns about the other. |
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