What is Cybernetics ?
Cybernetics is about systems (and most things are a system), in particular, systems with feedback. Useful principles are equally well applied to technological systems as to those in humans and other animals, the environment and (in principle) the economy. The subject transcends traditional academic subjects - hence it provides a different perspective on looking at systems - and thus we have the Escher inspired view (below), showing aspects of the subject. These aspects are expanded upon in the following sections:
