"As an anthropologist, I have been interested in the effects that the theories of Cybernetics have within our society. I am not referring to computers or to the electronic revolution as a whole, or to the end of dependence on script for knowledge, or to the way that dress has succeeded the mimeographing machine as a form of communication among the dissenting young. Let me repeat that, I am not referring to the way that dress has succeeded the mimeographing machine as a form of communication among the dissenting young. I speciļ¬cally want to consider the signiļ¬cance of the set of cross-disciplinary ideas which we ļ¬rst called āfeed-backā and then called āteleological mechanismsā and then called it ācybernetics,ā a form of crossdisciplinary thought which made it possible for members of many disciplines to communicate with each other easily in a language which all could understand."
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Margaret Mead
1901 ā 1978
Margaret Mead (16 December 1901 ā 15 November 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s.
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