Definitions

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  • adjective Of or relating to cybernetics—the mathematical study of communication and control in the animal and the machine.
  • adjective Of or relating to computers and internet.

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  • adjective of or relating the principles of cybernetics

Etymologies

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From Ancient Greek κυβερνητικός (kybernētikos, "good at steering, good pilot"), from κυβερνητική τέχνη (kybernētikē technē, "the pilot’s art"), from Ancient Greek κυβερνισμός (kybernismos), κυβέρνησις (kybernēsis, "steering, pilotage, guiding"), from κυβερνάω (kybernaō, "to steer, to drive, to guide, to act as a pilot"). The term first recorded in English in 1948.

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Examples

  • The term cybernetic refers to a control-and-response mechanism in organisms and some machines.6 A thermostat is a simple example.

    The Answer John Assaraf 2008

  • The term cybernetic refers to a control-and-response mechanism in organisms and some machines.6 A thermostat is a simple example.

    The Answer John Assaraf 2008

  • These include his abiding interest in cybernetic systems and the element of chance in the recording process, famously represented by his Oblique Strategies cards developed with the painter Peter Schmidt.

    Ballardian » Review: Geeta Dayal’s Another Green World 2010

  • For example, the rapid human advancement in cybernetic technology, at the Southampton University “The Southampton Hand”.

    Jane Webb: Illumination Illumini Cyborg Artwork | SciFi UK Review 2008

  • His work focuses on the design of systems for the creation, manipulation and performance of simultaneous image and sound, as part of a more general inquiry into the formal language of interactivity, and of nonverbal communications protocols in cybernetic systems.

    Golan Levin Red 2007

  • His work focuses on the design of systems for the creation, manipulation and performance of simultaneous image and sound, as part of a more general inquiry into the formal language of interactivity, and of nonverbal communications protocols in cybernetic systems.

    Archive 2007-03-01 Red 2007

  • But yesterday's development raises an interesting question: what do you call a cybernetic organism whose cybernetic components are organic?

    The Speculist: Cyborgs 2005

  • But yesterday's development raises an interesting question: what do you call a cybernetic organism whose cybernetic components are organic?

    The Speculist: February 2005 Archives 2005

  • Some have called the cybernetic idea the most important in 2000 years ... since the idea of Jesus Christ.

    John Brockman: The Selfish Gene: Thirty Years On 2008

  • Some have called the cybernetic idea the most important in 2000 years ... since the idea of Jesus Christ.

    Boing Boing: March 26, 2006 - April 1, 2006 Archives 2006

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  • a confirmation

    beneath cybernetic delicacies

    situationisms collapse in the hermeneutics.

    February 4, 2013