Abstract
ABSTRACT In ‘Cybernetics, or the metatechnology of a machine', Max Bense responds to the dramatic developments in communications technology, information theory, and computation in the late 1940s. Published in March 1951, the short essay focuses on the ‘Eniac’ as a cybernetic machine and argues that the invention of such machines proves that technology implements logical principles – a first step in his ontological theory of machines. In eight short sections, Bense offers brief historical insights into the philosophical, mathematical, physical, and cybernetic foundations of the relationship between humans and machines, concluding with a prognosis for a future in which human existence can only fully be understood as technical existence.
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