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Re:Cyberdecks by jhbadger on Saturday July 29, 2023 @08:01PM (#36926189)
Cyber actually means self-regulating. It comes from the Greek for "good at steering". Cybernetics was the study of self-regulating systems. I'm not sure where computers and high tech got in the picture other than the fact that cybernetics researchers used computers to analyze things.
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Re:Cyberdecks by 29athrowaway on Saturday July 29, 2023 @09:34PM (#36926812)
Certainly it was not the connotation given by the pioneers of the genre.
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Re:Cyberdecks by yencabulator on Monday July 31, 2023 @03:55PM (#36947909)
Origin of the word cyberpunk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_(novel)

Anyone have a reference for when the cyber- prefix of cybernetics mutated from meaning control theory to "of or relating to computers and internet"?

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