The emergent order of industrial mobilization during WWII
In January 1941 defense spending rose to triple what it had been during the previous six months. By July it quintupled, and December it jumped […]
Emergence
The birth of automated targeting and the modern computer
We’ve been wrestling with information as a medium for negative feedback ever since Norbert Wiener published Cybernetics in 1949, and Wiener himself had been thinking […]