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Cybernetics is not the banana
Cybernetics is useful. Representations of cybernetics can also become ceremonial fruit. This is the long version of that warning.
Public material
- Cybernetics is not the banana — a story of practice transfer2021 · PDF
The OR63 presentation, with the full public-service practice-transfer argument.
The banana is an aid to memory. It is not the cybernetics. This distinction has proved less self-maintaining than one might hope.