This is the most challenging transition with tech in terms of the outcomes and the difficulty defining just what this trend is. Cybernetics is* ~insertion of a

This is the most challenging transition with tech in terms of the outcomes and the difficulty defining just what this trend is. Cybernetics is* ~insertion of a governance layer into our social contract that we didn't agree to relinquish our agency to... It just sort of happened, and we deal with the outcomes. The more disconcerting aspect to me is the latter. Suddenly, QR codes everywhere, good luck getting around without a smart phone, if that driverless car sideswipes you and doesn't stop, call someone I guess? If this area/trend interests you, there is a lot of reading available from the weird (CCRU, early Nick Land) to the fairly mechanical/academic (MIT, Norbert Wiener), to the openly behavioral governance-themed (Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab, B.J. Fogg), to adversarial-to-tech (The Cybernetic Hypothesis). * so-so definition of the space, but its the best I can sum it up.