- ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
- cybernetics (n.)
- coined 1948 by U.S. mathematician Norbert Wiener (1894-1964) from Gk. kybernetes "steersman" (metaphorically "guide, governor") + -ics; perhaps based on 1830s Fr. cybernétique "the art of governing."
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- cybernetic (adj.)
- 1951, back formation from cybernetics. Gk. kybernetikos meant "good at steering."
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