His book was entitled "Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine". The name "cybernetics' was coined by N. Wiener to denote the study of "teleological mecha- machines with corrective feedback. Wiener was part of a group of very nisms", that Norbert Wiener brainy people of various' specialities chology, mathematics, sociology, philosophy, knowledge management.
So, the modern study of cybernetics began at the intersection of neurology, electronic network theory and logic modelling. Wiener popularized the social implications of cybernetics, drawing analogies between automatic systems such as a regulated steam engine and human institutions. The laws described by N. Wiener as the basis of cybernetics greatly interested scientists of many specialities.
