{"id":1378,"date":"2016-10-07T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccsmfa.wordpress.com\/?p=1378"},"modified":"2021-01-18T18:59:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T23:59:42","slug":"lost-history-of-cybernetics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/2016\/10\/lost-history-of-cybernetics\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost History of Cybernetics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-content\/uploads\/sidebarnwmp_portrait.jpg?resize=140%2C280\" alt=\"Norbert Wiener Media Project\" width=\"140\" height=\"280\" \/>Norbert Wiener is the centerpoint of <a href=\"http:\/\/norbertwiener.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new project to raise awareness<\/a> about the history of cybernetics.<\/p>\n<p>There are quite a few\u00a0videos, including\u00a0a <a href=\"http:\/\/norbertwiener.org\/remaining-human\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">16-minute trailer<\/a>\u00a0about the proposed full-length documentary\u00a0(full disclosure: I&#8217;m advisor to the project and appear on-screen). The site\u00a0also offers a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/norbertwiener.org\/the-next-macy-conference-a-new-synthesis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wonderful talk by Andy Pickering<\/a>,\u00a0proposing a new synthesis and New Macy Meetings. (Andy started using\u00a0the term &#8220;antidisciplinarity&#8221; in reference to cybernetics, which brought cybernetics to the attention of Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab, as described in <a href=\"http:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/2016\/01\/mit-media-lab-design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his piece in the Design + Science Journal<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norbert Wiener is the centerpoint of a new project to raise awareness about the history of cybernetics. There are quite a few\u00a0videos, including\u00a0a 16-minute trailer\u00a0about the proposed full-length documentary\u00a0(full disclosure: I&#8217;m advisor to the project and appear on-screen). The site\u00a0also offers a\u00a0wonderful talk by Andy Pickering,\u00a0proposing a new synthesis and New Macy Meetings. (Andy started &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/2016\/10\/lost-history-of-cybernetics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lost History of Cybernetics&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,6,9],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-1378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybernetics","category-interaction-design","category-pangaro","tag-cybernetics-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paKWzH-me","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1378"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3216,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1378\/revisions\/3216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}