The Cybernetic Brain by Ernest Pickering
Sketches of Another Future
A history of mid-20th-century British cybernetics, it follows experimental thinkers who built adaptive machines and feedback systems to explore mind, society, and control. Through case studies like autonomous “tortoise” robots, the homeostat, and an ambitious national management experiment in Chile, it shows how self-organization and real-time regulation challenged conventional boundaries between humans and machines. Emphasizing a performative, open-ended approach to science and technology, it proposes an alternative, nonmodern vision in which people and devices co-evolve through practice and experimentation.
- Published
- 2010
- Nationality
- British
- Length
- Long
- Pages
- 540-550
- Original Language
- English
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