An alternative history of cybernetics sheds light on the processes and forces that, in fact, lay behind computer developments. From the 1940s to our day, the author provides complete, reliable, and sometimes simply astonishing information about this rapidly evolving technology that has captured the modern world. You’ll learn what the prefix “cyber-” really means, how cybernetics became a science, what the military has to do with it, and what awaits our world in the very near future.