Difference between revisions of "Post-War Cybernetics"
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| − | In the years just before, during and after the second world war, emerging tendencies in scientific thought coalesced into a new field which [[Norbert Wiener]] called [[ | + | In the years just before, during and after the second world war, emerging tendencies in scientific thought coalesced into a new field which [[Norbert Wiener]] called [[cybernetics]]. This discipline formed at the crossroads of computer science, electrical engineering, biology and social science. |
| − | + | Cybernetics exercised a major influence on the development of theories about society, information, the environment and the use of computers. | |
| + | ==Early contributors== | ||
| + | Figures who made early contributed to [[cybernetics]] include: | ||
*[[Gregory Bateson]], anthropologist | *[[Gregory Bateson]], anthropologist | ||
*[[Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy]], biologist | *[[Karl Ludwig von Bertalanffy]], biologist | ||
