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Elements of Control: An Introduction to Cybernetics with Nick

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The Relationship Between Computing and Cybernetics

Paul Edwards lays out a history of cybernetics through the 20th century up to the 90s after the fall of the USSR. Cybernetics and the need to invest in computers comes out of the fear of the Soviet Union, he says. There's definitely major investments by the Department of Defense into computer technologies at this time,. The development of the von Neumann architecture which is still the backbone of the development of digital computers was coming about at this time.

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