Norbert Wiener: Cybernetics, or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (1948–) [EN, RU, IT]
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“Acclaimed as one of the ‘seminal books … comparable in ultimate importance to … Galileo or Malthus or Rousseau or Mill’, Cybernetics was judged by twenty-seven historians, economists, educators, and philosophers to be one of those books published during the ‘past four decades,’ which may have a substantial impact on public thought and action in the years ahead.”—Saturday Review
First published by Hermann & Cie, Paris, 1948.
Second edition
Publisher MIT Press, 1961
Fourth printing, 1985
ISBN 026273009X, 9780262730099
212 pages
Cybernetics, or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (English, 2nd ed., 1948/1961, PDF, DJVU, updated on 2015-12-6)
Kibernetika, ili upravlenie i svyaz v zhivotnom i mashine (Russian, trans. G.N. Povarov, 1958, DJVU, added on 2021-4-8)
La cibernetica: controllo e comunicazione nell’animale e nella macchina (Italian, trans. Giampaolo Barosso, 1968/1982, added on 2021-4-8)
See also Monoskop resource on Cybernetics.
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