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'''Wiener, Norbert. ''Cybernetics: or, Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine''.''' Cambridge, MA: MIT P, 1948. [[Category: Background]]

		The introduction of the new science of cybernetics to the general scientific community and to a fairly wide popular audience. Note well the early yoking in cybernetics of communication and control, animal and machine.

Discussed respectfully, but corrected, and critiqued, in Jessica Riskin's ''[[The Restless Clock: A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick|Restless Clock]]'', ch. 9, pp. 310 f.

See also Tracy Kidder, ''[[The Soul of a New Machine]]''.

RDE, expanded, 27May21