The Cybernetics Scare and the Origins of the Internet
Cybernetics was created in the Soviet Union in the ’50s; it celebrated technical progress as the future of mankind. Cybernetics proceeded from the encounter between human and machine.
A scholarly journal from the Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES) Södertörn University, Stockholm.
Lecturer in the Science, Technology and Society Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is the author of From Newspeak to Cyberspeak: A History of Soviet Cybernetics (2002).
Cybernetics was created in the Soviet Union in the ’50s; it celebrated technical progress as the future of mankind. Cybernetics proceeded from the encounter between human and machine.