The cybernetics moment, or, why we call our age the information age / Ronald R. Kline.

  • Kline, Ronald R.
Date:
2015
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Also known as

Why we call our age the information age

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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015.

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xi, 336 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-324) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- 1. War and information theory -- 2. Circular causality -- 3. The cybernetics craze -- 4. The information bandwagon -- 5. Humans as machines -- 6. Machines as human -- 7. Cybernetics in crisis -- 8. Inventing an information age -- 9. Two cybernetic frontiers.

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    History of Medicine
    AC.U.AA9
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  • 9781421416717
  • 1421416719