The first contribution the church can make to our emerging
cybernetic society is to create out of its heritage a vision of what a humanly desirable future would be.
Now a second main ingredient of
the cybernetic society must be introduced: politics.
Our interest here is in what
a cybernetic society is like, so let us look at a social organization rather than at a mechanical system.
A cybernetic society would be self - guiding.
The term compassionate is used advisedly for this organic,
cybernetic society.
I will be using the idea of
a cybernetic society as a summing - up term.
But we must push deeper to understand how this megapolitan,
cybernetic society emerged.
A third and final dimension of
the cybernetic society must be mentioned briefly: the importance of values and goals.
The cybernetic society will also be post - industrial.2 A pre-industrial society is engaged basically in taking things from the earth.
Finally, the material provided could be used to show how problem solving, decision making, and goal setting must all be taken into account in dealing with moral problems in
a cybernetic society.
Not exact matches
Wiener believed that the proliferation of media and technology could make human
society as
cybernetic as any networked organism.
, Cybernetics and Systems 2008, Austrian
Society for
Cybernetic Studies, 2008
The storyline explores some of the hottest contemporary themes (chiefly the multicultural and multiethnic
society) through the lens of
cybernetic augmentation, and it does so admirably well.
Sturtevant focuses on the ubiquity of images which surround us day in, day out and affect our perception of reality, presents stereotypes, and takes a sharp and critical look at a lethargic
society which is increasingly encompassed by a digitally shaped surface and moulded by the experience industry: «What is currently compelling is our pervasive
cybernetic mode, which plunks copyright into mythology, makes origins a romantic notion, and pushes creativity outside the self.