Is cybernetics still relevant? What are the major concepts of 'cybernetics'? Can it share insights with internet of things?

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Cybernetics of living organisms has been a concept popular in 1970's in electrical engineering, systems biology, HMI and control systems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics.

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