Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

1 card

1. 01

   Many systems — animals, machines, even cities — self-regulate by using feedback about their own results, the same way a thermostat shuts off heat once it is warm enough.

   Cybernetics: Or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine · 1948

   Systems self-regulate by using feedback from the results of their own actions.

   Wiener called the study of feedback loops cybernetics: a system measures the effect of its own action and adjusts its behavior based on that effect. A thermostat reads the temperature, compares it to the target, then turns heat on or off. Your body does the same when it shivers.

   Open the card →