Initially, the field of cybernetics encompassed different areas of sciences as statistics, information, computing machines, nervous systems, as well as adjacent disciplines as economics, sociology, psychopathology and linguistics, not as a collection of individual disciplines, but rather as a way of reasoning in sciences. In the last decades, cybernetics revolutionized large areas of engineering and technology. Also, its concepts of self-regulation, autonomy, interactive adaptation provided a rigorous theoretical basis for the achievement of a dynamic equilibrium among human individuals, groups and societies.
edited by Constantin Virgil Negoita