Historical commentary on Norbert Wiener’s cybernetics and missed technological forecasts

Summary

Historical commentary on Norbert Wiener’s cybernetics and missed technological forecasts The passage provides a retrospective analysis of Wiener’s ideas and their relevance, but contains no specific allegations, names, transactions, dates, or actionable leads involving powerful actors or controversies. Key insights: Wiener did not anticipate the rapid drop in computer costs or the explosion of computing power.; He emphasized top‑down control, missing the later bottom‑up innovation model.; His work on feedback loops and information theory laid groundwork for modern complex systems.