# Norbert Wiener **Domain:** Cybernetics / Mathematics / Ethics **Doc Type:** Thinker Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[Cybernetics]], [[The Human Use of Human Beings]], [[Feedback Loops|Feedback Loop]], [[Human-Machine Symbiosis]] --- ## Definition Norbert Wiener (1894–1964) was an American mathematician who named cybernetics and developed its implications for control, communication and society. ## Corpus Context [[Cybernetics]] and [[The Human Use of Human Beings]] anchor the corpus's distinction between adaptive systems as technical achievements and the political question of whose purposes they serve. ## Relationships [[Cybernetics]], [[The Human Use of Human Beings]], [[Feedback Loops|Feedback Loop]], [[Human-Machine Symbiosis]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]