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The computer science branch of the story is reasonably accurately known in public/pop versions, but the controls branch is basically not known at all Stuart Bennett’s 2 volume history of controls upto 1960 and David Mindell’s books for the “cybernetics” circus are solid coverage
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The bs theater around cybernetics used to bother me a lot back then. It’s like salting a mine… throw in a few gold nuggets and sell a scam mine as real. But then I decided it was a kind of performance art by Wiener in particular. He was the Wolfram of his time. Claim everything.
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