Episode 75 - A Cybernetic Future

Podcast: Advent of Computing (LS 42 · TOP 1.5% what is this?)Episode: Episode 75 - A Cybernetic FuturePub date: 2022-02-07Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationCybernetics is broadly defined as the study of control and communications, with a special emphasis on feedback-based systems. Put another way: cybernetics is the study of the flow of data. Predating computer science by decades, cybernetics offers up an interesting view of computing. But of course, there's a lot more to the picture than just computers. This episode we are looking at Project Cybersyn, an attempt to automate Chile's economy via cybernetics. To talk about this specific case we are going to dive deep into the history of cybernetics itself. Selected Sources: https://sci-hub.se/10.1086/286788 - Behavior, Purpose, and Teleology https://sci-hub.se/10.1057/jors.1984.2 - The Viable System Model, by Beer https://web.archive.org/web/20181222110043/http://ada.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/cybernetics/Platform/platform.pdf - Beer on Cybersyn https://web.archive.org/web/20200619033457/https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/edenm/EdenMedinaJLASAugust2006.pdf - Designing Freedom, Regulating a Nation, by Eden MedinaThe podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Sean Haas, which is the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Listen Notes, Inc.