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Comment by adolph

1 day ago

Cybernetic refers to systems of communication and automated control, which would describe the purpose of a corp in a broad sense, no?

The Dan Davies book “The Accountability Machine” [0] makes the link between corps and cybernetics through early business author/consultants like Stafford Beer [1].

0. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/U/bo252799...

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_purpose_of_a_system_is_wha...