Appendix Cybernetics of Cybernetics Competition:The Official Guidelines

摘要

I have for a long time felt great sympathy with Margaret Mead's position, that a cybernetic society should behave in a cybernetic manner. I have also felt it strange how cybernetic societies are so conventional. For me, Mead's request is that we are consistent: 'Do as you would be done by' as I was told, as a boy. I see consistency as a quality central to cybernetics, at least in the way I am interested in the subject. I had wanted (and tried) to persuade those in positions of power to support a competition that would generate examples of how a society might behave in a cybernetic manner. When I was elected president of the American Society for Cybernetics (ASC) in 2007 I sought an opportunity to run this competition.