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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New Studies in American Intellectual and Cultural History SeriesPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (351 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421416724
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Cybernetics MomentDDC classification:
  • 303.48/33
LOC classification:
  • Q360 .K56 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 War and Information Theory -- 2 Circular Causality -- 3 The Cybernetics Craze -- 4. The Information Bandwagon -- 5 Humans as Machines -- 6 Machines as Human -- 7 Cybernetics in Crisis -- 8 Inventing an Information Age -- 9 Two Cybernetic Frontiers -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.
Summary: Ultimately, he reveals the crucial role played by the cybernetics moment--when cybernetics and information theory were seen as universal sciences--in setting the stage for our current preoccupation with information technologies.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 War and Information Theory -- 2 Circular Causality -- 3 The Cybernetics Craze -- 4. The Information Bandwagon -- 5 Humans as Machines -- 6 Machines as Human -- 7 Cybernetics in Crisis -- 8 Inventing an Information Age -- 9 Two Cybernetic Frontiers -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Ultimately, he reveals the crucial role played by the cybernetics moment--when cybernetics and information theory were seen as universal sciences--in setting the stage for our current preoccupation with information technologies.

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