WHITHER CYBERNETICS: PAST ACHIEVEMENTS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS Available to Purchase

Major past achievements of Cybernetics are: the theory of servomechanisms and the information theoretical approach in molecular biology. Aspects of energy are treated in Cybernetics. Future prospects are: 1, automatic configuration control of complex systems using forming devices with computers; 2, automatic organization based upon neighbourhood relations and cellular automata theory. Seven basic operations of organization are given. Two new principles are noted: automatic cooperative control and distributive reflective organization. The concepts of state, situation and information pattern of stochastic systems are elucidated. Some premises for the promotion of Cybernetics are formulated, stressing its interdisciplinary and international character.