"Cybernetics" has an actual meaning distinct from anything to do with the Internet, and precedes it by decades. It is about using feedback from sensors to contr

"Cybernetics" has an actual meaning distinct from anything to do with the Internet, and precedes it by decades. It is about using feedback from sensors to control something. It was based on observations of biological control systems, and creating principles from them for machines. For example using a gyroscope reading in a PID-loop that runs motors to keep a robot steady. The word comes from "Kuber" in Greek, which means "to steer". The Internet-connotation comes from the "Cyberspace" in William Gibson's novel "Neuromancer", where it was supposed to be jacked into the brain: thereby the connection to biological control systems, and thus cybernetics. I personally cringe at most modern uses of "cyber-". The only I don't to is "cyberpunk", which refers to environments and aesthetics as in novels such as Neuromancer.