04244cam a2200517Ii 4500 ocn910662998 OCoLC 20221128173749.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 150604s2015 mdua ob 001 0 eng d 9781421416724 electronic bk. 1421416727 electronic bk. 9781421416717 1421416719 (OCoLC)910662998 882665 N$T eng rda pn N$T P@U N$T N$TA Q360 .K56 2015 SOC 000000 bisacsh 303.48/33 23 Kline, Ronald R., author. The cybernetics moment, or, why we call our age the information age / Ronald R. Kline. Cybernetics moment Why we call our age the information age Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2015] ©2015 1 online resource : illustrations. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier New studies in American intellectual and cultural history Includes bibliographical references and index. War and information theory -- Circular causality -- The cybernetics craze -- The information bandwagon -- Humans as machines -- Machines as human -- Cybernetics in crisis -- Inventing an information age -- Two cybernetic frontiers. How did cybernetics and information theory arise, and how did they come to dominate fields as diverse as engineering, biology, and the social sciences?Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRLOutstanding Academic Title, ChoiceCybernetics—the science of communication and control as it applies to machines and to humans—originates from efforts during World War II to build automatic antiaircraft systems. Following the war, this science extended beyond military needs to examine all systems that rely on information and feedback, from the level of the cell to that of society. In The Cybernetics Moment, Ronald R. Kline, a senior historian of technology, examines the intellectual and cultural history of cybernetics and information theory, whose language of “information,” “feedback,” and “control” transformed the idiom of the sciences, hastened the development of information technologies, and laid the conceptual foundation for what we now call the Information Age. Kline argues that, for about twenty years after 1950, the growth of cybernetics and information theory and ever-more-powerful computers produced a utopian information narrative—an enthusiasm for information science that influenced natural scientists, social scientists, engineers, humanists, policymakers, public intellectuals, and journalists, all of whom struggled to come to grips with new relationships between humans and intelligent machines.Kline traces the relationship between the invention of computers and communication systems and the rise, decline, and transformation of cybernetics by analyzing the lives and work of such notables as Norbert Wiener, Claude Shannon, Warren McCulloch, Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and Herbert Simon. Ultimately, he reveals the crucial role played by the cybernetics moment—when cybernetics and information theory were seen as universal sciences—in setting the stage for our current preoccupation with information technologies. Print version record. Information theory. Cybernetics Social aspects. Electronic books. Print version: Kline, Ronald R., author. Cybernetics moment, or, why we call our age the information age 9781421416717 (DLC) 2014035091 (OCoLC)890127838 New studies in American intellectual and cultural history. https://login.ezproxy.pucpr.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=882665 Acceso Remoto EBSCOhost https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=882665 Acceso en el Campus PUCPR lcc 7 297483 297483 0 0 ddc 0 0 10 10 45 2021-12-20 0 303.48/33 ocn910662998 2021-12-20 00:00:00 2021-12-20 7 0 0 lcc 0 0 12 12 45 2022-11-28 0 Q360 .K56 2015 50000003291597 2022-11-28 00:00:00 Ebook c. 1 2022-11-28 7