Briefly, then decided it was mostly Wiener’s delusions of grandeur picked up by people who he could easily bullshit, adding very little to the basic engineering subject. Did have a paper in IEEE systems, cybernetics, and man journal though :)
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Control theory is bread-and-butter engineering routinely used in everything from thermostats to autopilots to missile guidance. Dates to 1930s. Wiener made a few key early contributions in the 1940s and then forked off into a cult of personality pseudoscience ama cybernetics.
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Umm no. Most control theory people are either not even aware of cybernetics unless they have an interest in history, or view cybernetics the way medical doctors view alt medicine. The modern thing called cybernetics is closer to pop management theory with some math attached.