Kybernetika 44 no. 3, 314-327, 2008

Sixty years of cybernetics: cybernetics still alive

Ivan M. Havel

Abstract:

This informal essay, written on the occasion of 60th anniversary of Wienerian cybernetics, presents a series of themes and ideas that has emerged during last several decades and which have direct or indirect relationships to the principal concepts of cybernetics. Moreover, they share with original cybernetics the same transdisciplinary character.