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dang
Related. Others?

An Introduction to Cybernetics (1957) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10372044 - Oct 2015 (16 comments)

(p.s. I put 2003 in the title above because it's the year of the article, although the book it's about was from 1956.)

xtiansimon
This reminds me of wine of my favorite Google NGrams

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Cybernetics%2C...

growingkittens
Changing from "Cybernetics" to "cybernetics" changes the curve a bit to show a slow rise.
Jtsummers
Select "case-insensitive" and cybernetics/Cybernetics shows as roughly flat from 2000 on. It also, of course, changes the curves for machine learning and artificial intelligence.
xtiansimon
Yeah. To the degree these terms are referring to similar pop-notion of the ideas, the spike and decline are interesting repetitions.
xtiansimon
Ah. case-insensitive is a button that _lights up_ when on, rather than text toggle, because it doesn’t have a triangle icon. I was responding on my phone.