Editing Cybernetics (section)

=== WWII and feedback ===
Cybernetics is forged in the crucible of global apocalyptic industrial warfare. And the men who fought the war fought it with intelligence systems. Codebreaking, models for bomber runs, efficient transmission of information, rocket systems. During the height of '''WWII''', military commands were dealing with the complexity of their battlefields. Developments in aviation technology produced more complex scenarios of payload delivery, as planes began to fly higher and deliver strikes of more complex nature.  

[[Norbert Wiener]], theorist of '''negative feedback''', was one scientist enlisted into this mission. Weiner, with the help of resident engineer Julian Bigelow, formulated the problem as fundamentally one dealing with the interface between human and machine systems- “in order to obtain as complete a mathematical treatment as possible of the over-all control problem, it is necessary to assimilate the different parts of the system to a single basis either human or mechanical.”<ref>Norbert Wiener ''I Am a Mathematician: The Later Life of a Prodigy'' Doubleday, 1956 pg. 251</ref> In essence it was a problem of  '''feedback systems'''. Humans interface with a machine, the machine does something, how do we maximize the efficacy of the relationship between input and output? Key to this, it turns out, is developing a reliable looping system in which each human input is matched with a machine output, not only in terms of whatever the machine is doing but in terms of feedback to the human operator. 

Now abstract from this the human operator.