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Computing Versus Cybernetics Difference In Emphasis
- Computer science focuses on computation and transforming data, while cybernetics foregrounds the movement and use of information for control.
- Host contrasts Turing-machine data-centric models with cellular automata style models where flow between cells matters more.
Beer Wired Steel Factories To A Mainframe
- Stafford Beer applied cybernetic ideas at United Steel by wiring factories to a mainframe and collecting sensor/terminal data.
- He generated reports and recommendations to improve production and modeled factories like organisms with feedback loops.
Viable System Model Is Homeostasis By Measurement
- The Viable System Model (VSM) seeks measurable homeostasis: define viability, measure it, collect data, and adjust variables toward balance.
- Beer used recursive five-part structure to scale control from factory cells up to national management.