Ronald R. Kline.
The Cybernetics Moment: or why we call our age the information age.
Johns Hopkins University Press. 2015
Cybernetics—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.
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.