Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics

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Between Human and Machine: Feedback, Control, and Computing before Cybernetics. By David A. Mindell. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. xiv + 440 pp. Index, notes, bibliography, figures, illustrations, photographs. Cloth, $46.00. ISBN 0-801-86895-5.

As its subtitle suggests, this book is a history of the quintessentially cybernetic concepts of feedback and control in the decades immediately before there was such a thing as cybernetics. Cybernetics was to the 1950s what chaos theory was to the 1980s: a new way of looking at the world that, according to breathless and best-selling ...

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