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EPISTÉMÈ Vol.5 pp.217-238
Norbert Wiener : The prophet repented of cybernetics
Key Words : Norbert Wiener,cybernetics,machine,humans being,interaction
Abstract
Norbert Wiener, in the next days of the Second World War, symbolizes intellectually speaking, the industrial, scientific and military dominion of the U.S.A.. He had elaborated, in 1938, a new theory, the cybernetics, which benefited from an international broadcasting in 1950. In the heart of this doctrine appear the interactions between energy and information as well as the concepts of entropy, redundancy, feedback and regulation. Directly stemming from the engineering, the cybernetics conceives as identical information exchanges uttered and received by machines and/or humans beings. By 1960, this theory took such a scale in the intellectual circles as his designer worried about it publicly. He did not wish that his scientific work guarantees for decision-making by the thinking and communicating machines on the place of the humans beings.