Cybernetics

Explore recommended reads, summarized by AI

Foundations and History

Explorations of cybernetics theory, its pioneers, and its enduring relevance to systems thinking.

Cybernetics Theory and Pioneers

Technology and Society

Writing on robotics, artificial intelligence, and the evolving relationship between humans and machines.

Robotics and Human-Machine Integration

Popular this week

Neo-Cybernetics

Daniele Nanni

Stafford Beer’s Experiment: Steering an Economy by Feedback

5d ago

Kye Robson

What If the Phenomenon Has Learned How We See?

Oct 2

Original Philosophy

Elizabeth Halligan

Why Every Civilization Collapses: The Great Filter as a Failure of Second-Order Observation

Jul 8

Neo-Cybernetics

Daniele Nanni

In 1956, Ross Ashby Showed How to Study a Machine You Cannot Open

Nov 1

Ardis Harrison

The Sefer Yetzirah is an Electrical Circuit: Rectifying the Structural Failure of the Kircher Tree…

Oct 6

Selected by Medium

UX Collective

Jay Acutt

The forgotten science behind self-improving companies

Jun 8

Latest stories

Kevin Cox

How Community Wealth Building and Cellular Economics Put Ashby’s Law to Work

1d ago

In31side

THE SECOND DERIVATIVE: A Manifesto of Categorical Obsolescence and the Annihilation of Substrate…

3d ago

Neo-Cybernetics

Daniele Nanni

Stafford Beer’s Experiment: Steering an Economy by Feedback

5d ago

Neo-Cybernetics

Daniele Nanni

A Few Days Without Help: A Cybernetician’s Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

Nov 3

Neo-Cybernetics

Daniele Nanni

Why the Founder of Cybernetics Refused to Help Automate the Factory

Nov 2

See more stories

Cybernetics

Foundations and History

Cybernetics Theory and Pioneers

Technology and Society

Robotics and Human-Machine Integration

Popular this week

Stafford Beer’s Experiment: Steering an Economy by Feedback

What If the Phenomenon Has Learned How We See?

Why Every Civilization Collapses: The Great Filter as a Failure of Second-Order Observation

In 1956, Ross Ashby Showed How to Study a Machine You Cannot Open

The Sefer Yetzirah is an Electrical Circuit: Rectifying the Structural Failure of the Kircher Tree…

Selected by Medium

The forgotten science behind self-improving companies

Latest stories

How Community Wealth Building and Cellular Economics Put Ashby’s Law to Work

THE SECOND DERIVATIVE: A Manifesto of Categorical Obsolescence and the Annihilation of Substrate…

Stafford Beer’s Experiment: Steering an Economy by Feedback

A Few Days Without Help: A Cybernetician’s Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

Why the Founder of Cybernetics Refused to Help Automate the Factory

Who to follow

Popular this week

Stafford Beer’s Experiment: Steering an Economy by Feedback

What If the Phenomenon Has Learned How We See?

Why Every Civilization Collapses: The Great Filter as a Failure of Second-Order Observation

In 1956, Ross Ashby Showed How to Study a Machine You Cannot Open

The Sefer Yetzirah is an Electrical Circuit: Rectifying the Structural Failure of the Kircher Tree…

Selected by Medium

The forgotten science behind self-improving companies

Latest stories

How Community Wealth Building and Cellular Economics Put Ashby’s Law to Work

THE SECOND DERIVATIVE: A Manifesto of Categorical Obsolescence and the Annihilation of Substrate…

Stafford Beer’s Experiment: Steering an Economy by Feedback

A Few Days Without Help: A Cybernetician’s Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse

Why the Founder of Cybernetics Refused to Help Automate the Factory

Who to follow