September 30th, 2008; 4:04 AM
Current mood:
amused
I was thinking about one of my favorite things in the world...The law of requisite variety. I completely love this idea. And I try to apply it as much as possible. So...in love, and reading...I began to do research on cybernetics. And I came upon this. -The name of the man who originated the term *cybernetics* (and no..it's not L. Ron Hubbard...because that's Dianetics)
His name...was...Norbert Wiener! Bahahahaha...Oh dear! Is that one of the best names ever! As if Wiener wasn't bad enough...his parents had to name him Norbert on top of it!? What a manly, studly, sexy name. ;-P
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Origins of "cybernetics"
The term itself began its rise to popularity in 1947 when Norbert Wiener used it to name a discipline apart from, but touching upon, such established disciplines as electrical engineering, mathematics, biology, neurophysiology, anthropology, and psychology. Wiener, Arturo Rosenblueth, and Julian Bigelow needed a name for their new discipline, and they adapted a Greek word meaning "the art of steering" to evoke the rich interaction of goals, predictions, actions, feedback, and response in systems of all kinds (the term "governor" derives from the same root)
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