Media, Information and Technoculture 2500A/B Lecture Notes - Norbert Wiener, Watt Steam Engine, Washing Machine
13 Apr 2013
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Machine a powered collection of parts. Machines that follow instructions on their own. Hand washing machine: clockwork monk (16 c) Labour saving device: pieree jaquet-droz (18 c) Musician, writer, draftsman: mechanism is inside the body, first designed, loosely put computer. Self operating to self regulating: adaptable, become the goals for software design, this idea of governance to regulate self adjusting. Considered a self regulating automata: cybernetics. Interested in how systems interact to achieve a goal. Cybnetics studies that control system: studies governing processes in living and non living things, cyborg self regulating machine, norbert weiner. Had to try to build a machine to simulate how the human would respond, mimic human actions and thoughts and then translate it and feed that information out. The way a machine or human achieves equilibrium is error correction, through negative feedback loop: negative feedback loop. Dancer adjusting his footing to gain balance. Trying to achieve stability through muscle correction.
