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Between Human and Machine (edit title/settings)

Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics

by David A. Mindell (Author) (edit contributors)

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Today, we associate the relationship between feedback, control, and computing with Norbert Wiener's 1948 formulation of cybernetics. But the theoretical and practical foundations for cybernetics, control engineering, and digital computing were laid earlier, between the two world wars. In... read more

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In 1934, at the height of the machine age, Lewis Mumford laid out his vision for technology and human development.

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This book is in Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology. (publisher series)

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  1. David A. Mindell (Author)

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