To detail this claim a bit, the last two decades have seen accumulate a deep shelf of scholarly works that reclaim the postwar science of cybernetics as a historic lens for sharpening focus on other contemporary topics: cybernetics studies have helped understand computing technology, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, systems theory, feedback, genetics, ecology, economics, politics, science fiction and other literature, French theory, design, and cold war culture and counterculture in America, Britain, France, Germany, Chile, China, and elsewhere. It has been curious to observe: nowhere in the burgeoning secondary literature on cybernetics in the last two decades is there a concise history of cybernetics, the science of communication and control that helped usher in the current information age in America.
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