Cybernetics and the future of man
Robert Vallée
(Director‐General, World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics (WOSC) and Emeritus Professor at the Université Paris‐Nord, France)
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Abstract
Cybernetics is presented in relation to the future of mankind as seen by the author in 1952. Cybernetics is considered, in the framework of the history of mankind, as generating a kind of continuation of biological evolution by the addition to each individual of new capacities of perception, communication and action. From a collective point of view it generates a composite organism with a giant nervous system covering the surface of the earth.
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Citation
Vallée, R. (1996), "Cybernetics and the future of man", Kybernetes, Vol. 25 No. 7/8, pp. 32-40. https://doi.org/10.1108/03684929610149639
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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