Many geopolitical observers were stunned by the recent visit of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the United States, during which America recognized India as a nuclear power. Comparatively few accurately predicted the full impact of Washington's dramatic policy shift in favor of India. Still, some voices anticipated that cooperation between the world's oldest democracy and the world's largest democracy would have to happen eventually. One of those voices, from decades ago, yet somehow still relevant: that of mathematical savant Norbert Wiener, founder of the revolutionary science of cybernetics, and the subject of a sprawling, ambitious biography by Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman. After all, in the aftermath of World War II, disillusioned by trends within the U.S. government, Wiener...
Owners: Rudy Behrens, Donal McNally, Steve Moy Idea: Behrens has a background in aerospace engineering and artificial intelligence (computer programming to create intelligent machines). He used to work on building sustainable, alternative- energy-producing environments with the defunct The New Alchemy Institute in Cape Cod, Mass. His idea is to create a self-contained environment under robotic control that floats on the ocean surface that collects wind, sun and water to grow biomass, or plant material such as algae, that can be burned to make liquid fuel or gas and can be sold to utility companies. Behrens' plan was accepted by the business accelerator program at the Meadowlands Commission, where the staff put him in touch with Moy and McNally, and the three formed the company. McNally'...
We question Systems Theory by adopting a Bakhtinian dialogism approach. We argue that a dialogism approach gets us beyond first order cybernetic (control) and second order (open) system thinking to a third order cybernetics (multi-dialogisms). We believe third order cybernetic theory is an extension of Bakhtin's work. We explore how dialogue is not equivalent to polyphonic dialogism; the later does not assume being in same time and space, as in some meeting. Further, we look at three other dialogisms (stylistic, chronotopic, & architectonic). Multi-dialogisms raise questions for dialog, learning, and appreciative inquiry approaches. We conclude with insights on how dialogism is already a part of organization practice, and ways to enhance dialogic competence.
This paper provides a synoptic view of 'cybernetic capitalism' - a term that attempts to capture the leading sector developments within modern capitalism and to profile the leading accounts of these developments. 'Cybernetic capitalism' is a term used in this paper in order to distinguish a group of theories, or, better, positions, on the Left that attempt to theorize the nature of the new capitalism. 'Third capitalism' (after mercantilism and industrialism) now relies on a systems architecture that draws on cybernetics and modern supercomputing that connects five aspects of cybernetic capitalism: informational capitalism, cultural capitalism, cognitive capitalism, finance capitalism and biocapitalism. The paper examines two of these groups, namely informational capitalism and cognitive...
... in modern technology, specifically cybernetics. (11) . The question now is where is this network ...
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