Ashby's book "Introduction to Cybernetics" (2003)

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An Introduction to Cybernetics (1957) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10372044 - Oct 2015 (16 comments)

(p.s. I put 2003 in the title above because it's the year of the article, although the book it's about was from 1956.)

This reminds me of wine of my favorite Google NGrams

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Cybernetics%2C...

Changing from "Cybernetics" to "cybernetics" changes the curve a bit to show a slow rise.

Select "case-insensitive" and cybernetics/Cybernetics shows as roughly flat from 2000 on. It also, of course, changes the curves for machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Yeah. To the degree these terms are referring to similar pop-notion of the ideas, the spike and decline are interesting repetitions.

Ah. case-insensitive is a button that _lights up_ when on, rather than text toggle, because it doesn’t have a triangle icon. I was responding on my phone.

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