Cybernetics
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Cybernetics is the transdisciplinary study of circular causal processes such as feedback and recursion, where the outcomes of actions return as inputs for subsequent actions. It is concerned with gene
Principle diagram of a cybernetic system with a feedback loop
Norbert Wiener
Project Cybersyn
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Project Cybersyn was a Chilean economic project developed from 1971 to 1973 during the presidency of Salvador Allende, with the purpose of constructing a distributed decision-support system to aid in
Cybernetics
…development of management cybernetics has led to a variety of applications, notably to the national economy of Chile under the Allende government in Project Cybersyn, as well as other lesser known projects by Stafford Beer in Latin America. In design, cybernetics has been influential on interactive architecture…
Leon Trotsky's critique of the Soviet Union influenced Beer's shifting political views and the design of the Cybersyn model.