Movement
Image source: Cybersyn site (Beer’s socialist internet).
This chart is also here for eye candy. It’s by Stafford Beer, from his book ‘Platform for Change’ in 1975. Beer was an early cyberneticist who was among the first to apply the ideas of feedback to companies and organisations. Without him, companies would likely be organised in that funny old-fashioned way that was halfway between being complete ad hoc and just like the military.
It really hasn’t got much to do with this talk except that I really love looking at charts, and in this one Stafford Beer is explaining the transition from the old rigid world to a new one based on cybernetics.
I think we should just drink up the aesthetic of the thing, and then get right back to the scheduled talk.