TY - JOUR AB - 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. VL - 25 IS - 7/8 SN - 0368-492X DO - 10.1108/03684929610149639 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/03684929610149639 AU - Vallée Robert PY - 1996 Y1 - 1996/01/01 TI - Cybernetics and the future of man T2 - Kybernetes PB - MCB UP Ltd SP - 32 EP - 40 Y2 - 2024/05/04 ER -