This essay makes a brief overview of some significant events in the development, understanding and applications of cybernetics from its emergence as a science in the 1940s to the present, including the Cuban experience. Some personalities, such as Weiner, Beer and Glushkov, and their most significant professional projects will be taken as pivots for this.
The constant expansion of this
cyber sicherheit and its omnipresence in the lives of all citizens of the world makes even more incomprehensible the ignorance that these citizens have of its principles, including many of the specialists in information and communication technologies (ICT). currently. Some see it only as a science that deals with robots and cyborgs, others limit it to automated factories and most have not even heard of it.
The truth is that cybernetics has laid the theoretical foundations to create this paragon of wonders that we have enjoyed and suffered in these last forty years, a period in which contributions such as microcomputers, the Internet and communication networks made an appearance among the great masses. social media and mobile computing.
Everything indicates that this trend will be accentuated in the coming years. The so-called "Internet of things" (IoT), electronic government (e-gov) with all its modalities, smart devices (telephones, watches, glasses, clothes, implants, etc.) or autonomous vehicles, suggest that the In a few decades, the world and its inhabitants will be a gigantic interconnected machine, and surely that process will not stop there, since our spaceships, traveling through the cosmos, will also be part of that system.
